Cloud compiling

[ckoval7]

My team is a rookie team, and so far we don't have much to develop on. We just have the netbook and the school's laptops, neither of which are very fast. It takes 5 to 10 minutes just to compile a small program. I can't imagine how long it will take when our code grows into something useful.

Does the FRC version of labview come with the Labview FPGA module? I would assume it does because the cRio has an on-board FPGA.
If it does, would the instructions listed here work for setting up a compile farm across multiple linux machines?

[Mark McLeod]

No, we don't get the LabVIEW FPGA module.
We get a pre-compiled image for the FPGA to apply to the cRIO.

[MAldridge]

Yeah, we don't get that module, but that isn't that bad of a compile time. You can make it less noticeable by only deploying working code, and running from RAM where possible to test. Additionally you might look at investing in some time tweaking your machine. On a P3-M with 256MB RAM, I am able to get a 1:15 compile/deploy time. So it is all just a matter of optimizing your workstation and your process.