Question regarding cerebro, Windows and qmlglsink/src

[Tim Müller]

On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 13:08 +0100, Roland Peffer wrote:

Hi,

> Another question, just for curiosity: Why is the cerbero /MinGW build
> system so slow?

Autotools is extremely slow on Windows because of the way it works
(spawns loads of little programs, which is expensive on windows).

We're in the process of merging a meson-based build in cerbero which
will make things much faster both with mingw and with MSVC.

Cheers
 -Tim

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Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com