Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive

Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud -AT- gmail.com>
Mon, 7 May 2012 07:06:12 -0700

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Noel Grandin <noel@peralex.com> wrote:

On 2012-05-07 14:08, Andras Timar wrote:


Out of interest, could you please share the know-how of building with
RAM-Drive under Windows 7? Thanks, Andras



(0) I'm building under Windows7-64, using the latest Cygwin release, and the
Visual Studio 2008 compiler.

(1) I use the excellent free (donationware) IMDisk utility to create a
ram-disk. I appear to need around 5G of space for this RAM-disk.
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
During the build, at peak this machine was using around 10G of RAM.

(2) run configure with the --with-solver-and-workdir-root option pointing at
the ram-drive. For example, mine looks like
--with-solver-and-workdir-root=/cygdrive/D
where D: is my RAM-drive.

(3) You need Matus Kukan's patch to use mixed paths under cygwin (at least
until it gets committed).

And voila! It builds in about an hour on this machine (8-core AMD processor)


As oppose to how long before ? iow what is the gain ?

Norbert

Context

[PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Matúš Kukan
- Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Noel Grandin
  - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Andras Timar
    - [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Noel Grandin
      - Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Norbert Thiebaud
        
        Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Noel Grandin
        
        Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Jesús Corrius
      - Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Matúš Kukan
        
        Re: [HOW-TO] Building LibreOffice on Windows using RAM-Drive · Noel Grandin
  - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Andras Timar
    - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Noel Grandin
    - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Matúš Kukan
      - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Andras Timar
- Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · Noel Grandin
  - Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion · d . ostrovsky

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