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Visual Studio Generating Code/Compiling Multiple Times

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Started by Endemoniada Nov 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM 3 replies 1.7k views

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Endemoniada

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Endemoniada

Nov 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM

Hi guys,

This is really annoying. When I clean and rebuild VS does something like this:

1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Castle, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------

1> StdAfx.cpp
1> Vector.cpp

...

1> Generating Code...
1> Compiling...
1> Bitmap.cpp

1> Generating Code...
1> Castle.vcxproj -> C:\Code\Projects\Castle\Debug\Castle.exe

Notice how it compiles, then generates code, then compiles (usually one or two) more files, then generates code again. Why is it doing that ? In other projects is doesn't and I can't see any difference between them, I've tried a lot of things.

Thanks.

Nypyren

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Nypyren

Nov 28, 2017 at 4:57 AM

As far as I can tell, it batches up a handful of C++ files, then generates code for that batch all at once. But the batch size is limited, so you see more Generating Code the larger the project is. Nothing's going wrong.

CrazyCdn

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CrazyCdn

Nov 28, 2017 at 5:28 AM

Could be multi-threading your compiling. Is MP (think it's MP) switch set?

Endemoniada

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Endemoniada

Nov 29, 2017 at 1:14 AM

Hi Nypyren,

That seems to be exactly what's happening. Once I added another file or two I noticed it, it seemed out of the ordinary so I thought something was wrong. Thanks a lot.

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