VS Arduino - ESP8266 Compilation Speed

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Sylvain Junior Member Offline Posts: 67 Location: Montreal, Canada Joined: Nov 13^th, 2014	ESP8266 Compilation Speed Sep 16^th, 2021 at 1:49am	Print Post
	Hi, Could you told me why my compilation time is long (25 Second), the 8 Cores CPU don't go over 50% for each, SSD Disk access is lower than 10mb/s, memory have lot of free space, and the compiler is set for mutli cores. Is there a way to speed it up? maybe I miss some setting? Thanks Sylvain Bissonnette


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2173 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: ESP8266 Compilation Speed Reply #1 - Sep 16^th, 2021 at 8:33am	Print Post
	Thanks for the report. There are additional settings which can be used shown in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4D7J9bFvC4 If you could attach the full build output as a text file, with the Verbose and Show Build Properties checked (shown at the top of this page), then we will be able to assist further.


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Sylvain Junior Member Offline Posts: 67 Location: Montreal, Canada Joined: Nov 13^th, 2014	Re: ESP8266 Compilation Speed Reply #2 - Sep 16^th, 2021 at 4:54pm	Print Post
	Thanks for your reply, The only option I had miss is the deep search, but if I uncheck I have a error at #include <Ticker.h> I replace this line by #include <..\..\libraries\Ticker\src\Ticker.h> But now my code no longer compile and I have a lot of error inside the ticker library... Sylvain


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2173 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: ESP8266 Compilation Speed Reply #3 - Sep 16^th, 2021 at 10:08pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the update. If you re-enable the deep search option, and attach the requested log, we will be able to guide you further. The speed of the toolchains is outside of our control. They are .exe files that run as fast as they run. Some run quickly but the esp toolchains are slow, other are even slower. Switching off Deep Search does avoid running one part of the build process but it is important to clearly understand the implications. IN many cases you can add #includes for libraries directly to the .ino code, then deep search does have to run in order to discover the libraries. If your .ino code contains conditional (#if) #includes then deep search will need to be on. In any event, submitting the info requested in the yellow box above always saves us time and allows us to give more informed answers.
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Sylvain Junior Member Offline Posts: 67 Location: Montreal, Canada Joined: Nov 13^th, 2014	Re: ESP8266 Compilation Speed Reply #4 - Sep 22^nd, 2021 at 1:07am	Print Post
	thanks for the reply, and excuse for the long respond delay, Your reply is clear, I understand now because I have a lot of #ifdef in my code. Thanks for your help Sylvain Bissonnette


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