Re: [Gnash-dev] Faster building

[Rob Savoye]

Udo Giacomozzi wrote:
> Gnash takes extremely long to build, even with relatively simple
> configuration:

  Welcome to a C++ application... which takes more time to compile than
a C application.

> You see I use a simple GUI, only the AGG renderer with one pixel
> format, no media handlers... Can I optimize the configuration to speed
> up bulding?

  Don't pass in any optimizing flags by setting CXXFLAGS=-g only. Gnash
will run slower, but it'll compile much faster. Also on a dual core
machine, make -j3 speeds things up too.

> For example, there is
>   --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=yes]
>   --enable-static[=PKGS]  build static libraries [default=yes]
> 
> Does this mean that Gnash by default builds both shared *and* static
> libraries?

  Yes.

        - rob -