How to re-compile

HoHo

• Nov 23, 2011 - 19:28

Hello,
I try to compile MuseScore myself but the complilation crashes after some time (let's say 30%). Is there a way how to continue in compilation after getting rid of problems that cause the crash? Make doesn't continue in the process if build directory already exists and I am forced to run make clean. But how to 'make' if I do not want to loose what has already been compiled?

And how about making some little changes after the product has been compiled - do I need to 'clean' everything and run the whole (long) process again?

Thanks for answer!
Ho.

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• Nov 23, 2011 - 19:46

You can run make install after the first make (even if failed)

HoHo

• Nov 23, 2011 - 19:58

And what it does? I thought it just copies compiled mscore binary somewhere.. by the way, what is the best way to specify this location prefix?

schepers

• Nov 23, 2011 - 20:02

I know in Windows if the compilation fails partway, then a re-compilation will basically skip the sections that are already compiled. The command is this: mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw win32. But sometimes you do need to do a clean compile esp with large code commits.

As to the second point, I "svn checkout" the code changes all the time, and quick recompile so yes you can do it.

HoHo

• Nov 23, 2011 - 20:18

But the Makefile for linux is different than Makefile.mingw :(

Do you think it would be OK to get following Makefile section out of "if test ! -d build;" condition?
cd build; \ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \ ../mscore; \ make lrelease; \ make -j ${CPUS};