VS2010 on The Lone C++ Coder's Bloghttps://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/tags/vs2010/Recent content in VS2010 on The Lone C++ Coder's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 20 Oct 2010 07:36:24 +0000On combining #import and /MP in C++ builds with VS2010https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2010/10/20/on-combining-import-and-mp-in-c-builds-with-vs2010/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:36:24 +0000Timo Geuschhttps://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2010/10/20/on-combining-import-and-mp-in-c-builds-with-vs2010/<p>I&rsquo;m currently busy porting a large native C++ project from VS2008 to VS2010 and one of the issues I keep running into was build times. The VS2008 build uses a distributed build system; Unfortunately the vendor doesn&rsquo;t support VS2010 yet, so I couldn&rsquo;t use the same infrastructure. In order to get a decent build speed, I started exploring MSBuild&rsquo;s ability to build projects in parallel (which is fairly similar to VS2008&rsquo;s ability to build projects in parallel) and the C++ compiler&rsquo;s ability to make use of multiple processors/cores, aka the /MP switch.</p>