I've been having trouble getting incremental linking to work under Visual
C++ .net 2003 7.1 for my multi-project workspace. Ronald Laeremans and Carl
Daniel (and a few others) helped me figure it out.
Short answer: I should never have expected incremental linking to work.
Short answer addendum: Linking is slower in 7.1/.net/2003 than VC++6.
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My multi-project workspace consisted of one ".exe" project and about 40
".lib" projects. Making a change in one cpp/obj of a .lib would cause my
exe to be re-linked. This took a few seconds in VC++6. In
VC++7.1/.net/2003 this takes two minutes.
This huge increase in time led me to believe VC++7.1/.net/2003 was not
incrementally linking, while VC++6 was. However, I now believe that neither
version was incrementally linking. The new linker is just much slower than
the old. (You can't incrementally link static libararies).
Fast Solution Build
(http://www.workspacewhiz.com/FastSol...ildReadme.html
) modifies the build process to pass all the objs to the linker (and not
send the .lib) which enables "incremental linking" for people who have many
..lib projects in their workspace.
Until I can find a way to bring VC++71/2003/.net link times down to VC++6
levels (is there anything I can do?), I'll just use "Fast Solution Build".
Thanks for your help everyone,
Rudy
PS: Pass "/test" to link.exe to find the reason a link is not incremental.
