[SOLVED] libcef takes much longer to build on Windows

[romariorios]

For a project of mine, I have to build libcef myself. One thing I noticed is that rebuilding it takes much longer on Windows than on Linux, even if just one file was touched. I didn't time it, but I believe just linking takes over an hour, whereas the same process on Linux takes two minutes at most.

Is this a known problem? What could I do to alleviate it?

Thanks.

[magreenblatt]

What Windows and CEF version? What are your system specs (processor, memory, drive type)? What configuration are you using? How are you building?

[romariorios]

What Windows and CEF version? What are your system specs (processor, memory, drive type)? What configuration are you using? How are you building?

Windows 10, CEF 2623. AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz, 8 GB 1333 DDR3 (I think), 500GB HDD, I'm building with the automate-git.py script.

[magreenblatt]

You might be swapping during the link stage with 8GB of RAM. 16GB could give better results. Check resource usage in Task Manager while building to see where the bottlenecks are.

[Czarek]

CEF always builds much longer on Windows than on Linux. With buildtype=official it builds significantly longer and requires more ram.

[romariorios]

Thanks for the info.