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Hi,
I want to assemble programs which use similar components by linking identical libraries to different projects. That all for different configurations in a command line build environment.(2 Programs lib_test_main1.out and _main2.out, both using libraries lib_test_print1.lib and _print2.lib, first clean everything, then do incremental builds for Release and Debug configuration). Example project and output are attached.
What I see is that:
For the first (Release) configuration everything works as expected. For the second (Debug) configuration there is a lot on unnecessary clean and rebuild action, which extends the build time. Uncommented, filtered output in real_life_build.txt, comments about what I would expect in expected_build.txt.
Can you please give me a hint how to remove the additional clean builds and to use existing libraries instead of re-building them again?
(Splitting the clean builds between the releases is not a solution - the real application is even more complicated with with a 6 projects * 2 configurations * 2 other_parameters matrix, where one of the 24 configurations shall be build first as a touchstone build, with 11 of the remaing 23 later, thus a total clean at the beginning should be most efficient).
