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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / IDE / March 2007unnecessary C++ builds of up-to-date projects
I have a solution of C++ projects using VS 2005 SP1 on Windows XP SP2. I am using project dependencies to keep the correct build order. But I am having a problem where VS 2005 is unnecessarily re-building an up-to-date project. That is, I build the entire solution, and everything builds successfully. Then, when I build again (without changing anything), there are a handful of projects that get re-linked. How can I find out why VS is re-building an up-to-date project? Thanks, Phil Hi Phil, We need to perform more research on this issue . We will reply here as soon as possible. If you have any more concerns on it, please feel free to post here. Thanks for your understanding, Best regards, Wen Yuan Hi Phil, Thanks very much for your waiting. I have consulted with product team on this issue. The suggest from our product team is that, VS executes a build step (link, in your case) when a timestamp check shows that the tool inputs are more recent than its outputs. Would you please send me your project if this is possible for you? I will try to reproduce issue on my side and trouble-shooting for you. (My alias is v-wywang@microsoft.com) If this is not possible for you, we suggest you may, after a successful build, check one of the project which rebuilds and what inputs it has (probably all .obj's .manifests, etc) and see what seems to be more up-to-date than the outputs of the linker. That should show you which file is the culprit. It's easier said than done, though. This is probably something that will take many hours of investigation. In the future, there will be some tools that help you diagnose these sorts of problems. But, unfortunately, for now, I'm afraid we'll need to do it manually. By the way, If you have any more concerns on it, please feel free to post here. Hope this helps, Sincerely Wen Yuan > I have consulted with product team on this issue. The suggest from our > product team is that, VS executes a build step (link, in your case) when a > timestamp check shows that the tool inputs are more recent than its > outputs. There is something else going on. All inputs are checked out from source code control and have a timestamp in the past. I build and everything is successful. I build again, and a project re-links for no apparent reason. All inputs have timestamps later than the generated product. And, no, it is not possible for me to send my project to you. Even if I could, you would not have the necessary external libraries to build it. Is there anything that can be done to diagnose and fix this problem short of sending my entire solution of 112 projects to you? Phil Hi Phil Thanks for your reply. If it is not possible for you to send the entire solution, you may specify /VERBOSE option to the linker page, and select "Clean", "Rebuild" entire project. The linker will emit all the details of its linking process in the "Output" window. After that, we can perform further analysis on these details in the output. 1. Open the project's Property Pages dialog box. 2. Click the Linker folder. 3. Click the Command Line property page. 4. Type the "/VERBOSE" into the Additional Options box. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wdsk6as6(vs.80).aspx [/VERBOSE (Print Progress Messages) ] If you have any more concerns on it, please feel free to post here. We are glad to assist you. Have a great day, Sincerely, Wen Yuan v-wywang@microsoft.com Hi Phil, I haven't heard from you two days. Have you resolved the issue? Please feel free to update here if there is anything we can help with. I'm glad to assist you. Have a great day, Sincerely, Wen Yuan > I haven't heard from you two days. > Have you resolved the issue? No, we have not really resolved the problem. But since we cannot send you our code and you cannot provide further assistance or tools to diagnose the problem, I gues we are at an impass. Phil Hi Phil, I will do more research and contact our product team these days. In order to pass the information for you as soon as possible, would you mind providing me your email address, or send me an e-mail. My alias is v-wywang@microsoft.com. After that, I can contact you directly if I have any information. I'm looking forward to your email. Best regards, Wen Yuan Hi Phil, Have you resolved the issue so far? This issue seems only occur on your special project. I have contacted with product team and searched the bug list. Because it's not possible for you to send me your whole project and we cannot provide further analyse. I'm afraid this is very difficult to trouble-shooting such issue so far. Would you please give me your email address or just send me an e-mail (my alias is v-wywang@microsoft.com). So that we can get some detailed information about the issue. Have a great day, Sincerely, Wen Yuan
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