[x264-devel] [PATCH] build: Generate dependency information as a side-effect of compilation

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:48:43AM -0400, Steven Walters wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > Most importantly, dependencies are already getting generated right now.
> > So currently everybody is paying the cost of dependency generation every
> > time x264 gets built.  And lo and behold, generating dependencies as a
> > side-effect of compilation is quicker.  On my slow notebook build times
> > decrease from 1m15s to 1.13s with --disable-asm --disable-opencl (used
> > in order to mask out time spent assembling and running Perl scripts).
> 
> This is under the assumption that dependency generation CAN be
> generated as part of the actual compilation,
> which it can not be for all compilers (such as MSVS).
> MSVS is already slow to build with, making it even slower is rather undesirable.

How would you build with MSVS?  I see no support in configure ...

Diego