when I edit a *.h file I get long compile times.. how to stop this?

[Kailric]

Well, just like the title says. Nearly every time it seems I edit a *.h file I have to compile every file over again taking forever. Anyway this can be prevented? I am using CODEBLOCKS v 8

 

[Kastro]

When you change any source file, any .cpp file that depends directly or indirectly on that file will need to be recompiled. Since .h files will have more files dependent on them than .cpp files (since you #include .h files, not .cpp files), changing a .h file causes many files to be recompiled.

However, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of unneeded #includes in the source code (look at the #includes under "//jason tests" in CvGameCoreDLL.h). If you really wanted to optimize things you could clean up the includes so that only required files are included, or even split up some files into multiple files (CvInfos.h maybe).

I hear you on the long recompile time though, especially when you just want to test a minor change.

 

[isau]

Yep it's annoying. But way less annoying than experiencing totally random, untraceable crashes to desktop. So I use this time to walk away from the computer.

 

[isau]

BTW you normally don't need a total recompile after adding functions/methods. Just enums and variables/properties. You should still ALWAYS do a full recompile prior to release just in case though, and if your game starts crashing randomly, of course the first thing to do is do a fresh compile.