Phobos' Windows Makefile

[Eduard Staniloiu]

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:17:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2017-10-11 21:57, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've hit the following problem on this PR [0]:
>> The Windows 32bit build fails with the error: "more than 32767 
>> symbols in object file" [1].
>> 
>> After taking a look in `win32.mak`, I've seen that we are 
>> bundling multiple source files into a single object (which is 
>> the issue here), instead of compiling each source file into 
>> it's corresponding object and then linking the objects 
>> together.
>> Is there a reason behind doing so, or should we rewrite the 
>> Windows makefiles?
>
> It's faster to compile when passing multiple files to the 
> compiler at once. It doesn't have to run the compiler on the 
> same files over and over again.

I'm not convinced it's faster, as making a change in one of the 
bundled files will cause all the files in the object bundle to 
get recompiled, instead of compiling only the changed file and 
linking the objects.