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Re: Slow compilation with CygWin under Windows XP
- From: Mike Jastrebtsoff <jam2000 at pisem dot net>
- To: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:09:00 +0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Slow compilation with CygWin under Windows XP
- References: <1094575339.5962.13.camel@famine>
- Reply-to: Mike Jastrebtsoff <jam2000 at pisem dot net>
Hello, Oyvind.
I have a same problem, but I think that's a cygwin(or cygwin paths
translation) problem.
When I tried to build eCos with MingW tools(gcc 3.4.3) & configtool
built by MSVC(native Win32 paths and no cygwin1.dll) compilation time
is much better.
Regards,
Mike
OH> This is not a eCos problem as such, though it causes problems for the
OH> eCos build tools.
OH> Perhaps there are others out there who are experiencing the same problem
OH> and can confirm that this is not only on my machine/setup.
OH> Compiling eCos under Windows XP CygWin is *slow*.
OH> - a 1.5GHz Pentium HyperThreaded machine
OH> - 768 megabytes RAM
OH> - My harddisk only blips occasionally
OH> - no sign network usage
OH> - anti-virus turned off
OH> - Windows XP SP 1
OH> - the problem is somewhat recent(didn't happen back in June when I last
OH> compiled eCos on this particular machine).
OH> - no suspicious processes in the task manager getting stuck. The
OH> arm-elf-gcc process is created and immediately terminates.
OH> - When I examine the Task Manager the CPU usage is <10%
OH> It as if a there is some sort of delay or timeout problem somewhere in
OH> XP/CygWin make.exe process...
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