[webkit-dev] Tips to build faster on Mac?

[Danyao Wang]

Thanks everyone! I had a chance to try plain "make d -C Source/WebCore"
today and it's a lot faster. Small changes build under a minute, so this is
very helpful!

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> You can also just cd to the WebCore directory and type make.
>
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 3:24 PM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you have a full build and made changes to WebCore, you might only need
> to recompile WebCore. With make for instance, one can do:
> make d -C Source/WebCore
>
>   Y
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:55 AM Danyao Wang <danyao at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Brian for the Xcode UI tip! So far I've always used build-webkit.
>> I didn't realize there could be a difference.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Brian Burg <bburg at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Mar 15, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Danyao Wang <danyao at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Being new to WebKit development (and also switching from Linux to
>>> Mac), I find my workflow relatively clumsy. Building on a fresh checkout
>>> usually takes me 20+ minutes even on my 12-core Mac Pro. Fastest
>>> incremental builds are ~2 minutes. This adds a lot to the develop / test /
>>> debug cycle.
>>>
>>> These build times seem normal. WebKit is a big project, and we don’t use
>>> CMake/ninja by default when building for Cocoa ports.
>>>
>>> Are you building via build-webkit on the command line? In my experience,
>>> incremental builds are faster via Xcode’s UI.
>>>
>>> > I heard the good folks from Igalia working on the GTK port use icecc.
>>> Has anyone used this on Mac? Any other productivity tips?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> > Danyao
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