Incremental compilation with DMD

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Sep 12 15:29:35 PDT 2009


Tom S wrote:
> As for my own impressions of this idea, its biggest drawback probably is 
> that the multitude of object files created via -multiobj strains the 
> filesystem.

Sure, but -multiobj and -lib generate exactly the same object files, 
it's just that -lib puts them all into a library so it doesn't strain 
the file system.

Extracting the obj files from the lib is pretty simple, you can see the 
libomf.c for the format.



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