Autotools (especially libtool) is very slow on MinGW. On my system, compiling the /extra externals takes significantly longer than compiling the actual Pd application, only because of libtool.

If you want to get faster build times, rewrite the build system in CMake and compile with MSVC :-)

How often do you need to recompile whole Pd? Usually, you just change 1-2 files and this should compile and link rather quickly. "make app" is also slow (again, because of libtool). Usually, I only run "make app" once and then just copy pd.dll into the Pd folder on the command line (assuming you only make changes to the core):

cp ./src/pd.dll ./pd-0.50.2/bin

Christof

On 20.04.2020 22:23, Henri Augusto Bisognini wrote:

Hi list!

I'm using the usual build tools (as in INSTALL.txt) for compiling PD. Builds here can take several minutes for completion.

I know that compiling times on windows are generally slower than Linux and sometimes OSX. But i wonder if there is any pd-specific tips on optimizing compile time on Windows.

Cheers, Henri

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