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Re: Issue Mass Compiling FRC Robot Project
I don't know if this has already been reported through the official bug reporting channels, but it would be good to get to the bottom of that.
Like you, I tend to think of mass compile as innocuous, but with RT, it isn't really a good thing. Remember that the PC you are working on is Intel, but the robot will be PPC. WPI Lib could technically be used on either one, so when you mass compile, one thing that happens is to overwrite the PPC binary cached in each VI with Intel binary. Not a huge deal, certainly shouldn't cause any crash, but not going to help with compile time either.
AWhat seemed to cross-link? If I remember right, it seemed like there were a few things in WPI libraries which weren't in the palettes, and were already deprecated (the API evolved quite a bit during beta). Normally you wouldn't even use those, and I'm not sure if they even compile anymore. Anyway, perhaps those are contributing.
For the release we use a tool that does a programmatic mass compile specifically for the cRIO-RT app type. So, I'm pretty sure you could do that, but again is shouldn't be necessary unless you are using the VI server a lot.
Greg McKaskle
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