Visual Studio 2003 keeps rebuilding the entire solution
Hello experts,
I'm developing a C++ project in Visual Studio 2003. The solution I have consists of four projects:
gui, console, core (static library) and xml (static library)
The dependencies are: ("->" = depends on)
gui, console -> core
core -> xml
Everything was going along without problems until, suddenly, the development enviroment started insisting on rebuilding the entire solution everytime I made the slightest change in any project. Actually I don't even have to make any changes, it wants me to rebuild anyway, picture the following scenario:
I want to run gui application (i have it marked as the startup project) so I press ctrl+F5, Visual Studio informs me that all projects needs to be rebuilt, I press OK, they're rebuilt and the gui application launches. If I then close the gui application and, without modifying anything, press ctrl+F5 again, it still says that everything has to be rebuilt!
I don't recall having changed anything in the settings for the project since this behaviour started appearing (other than maybe enabling RTTI).
Any suggestions?
I'm developing a C++ project in Visual Studio 2003. The solution I have consists of four projects:
gui, console, core (static library) and xml (static library)
The dependencies are: ("->" = depends on)
gui, console -> core
core -> xml
Everything was going along without problems until, suddenly, the development enviroment started insisting on rebuilding the entire solution everytime I made the slightest change in any project. Actually I don't even have to make any changes, it wants me to rebuild anyway, picture the following scenario:
I want to run gui application (i have it marked as the startup project) so I press ctrl+F5, Visual Studio informs me that all projects needs to be rebuilt, I press OK, they're rebuilt and the gui application launches. If I then close the gui application and, without modifying anything, press ctrl+F5 again, it still says that everything has to be rebuilt!
I don't recall having changed anything in the settings for the project since this behaviour started appearing (other than maybe enabling RTTI).
Any suggestions?
ASKER
> 1.Check to see if your application change any of the files in xml project.
What do you mean ? that I would accidentally have fstream in my code that wrote the xml project directory? No, none of that.
> 2. When it rebuilds, it compiles file by file or just links to libraries?
It compiles every single file, yet the build log says this (for every project):
------ Build started: Project: core, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
1.cpp
2.cpp
3.cpp
4.cpp
5.cpp
6.cpp
Generating Code...
Skipping... (no relevant changes detected)
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I should also point out that there only is 6 files in the project from the build-log above.
What do you mean ? that I would accidentally have fstream in my code that wrote the xml project directory? No, none of that.
> 2. When it rebuilds, it compiles file by file or just links to libraries?
It compiles every single file, yet the build log says this (for every project):
------ Build started: Project: core, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
1.cpp
2.cpp
3.cpp
4.cpp
5.cpp
6.cpp
Generating Code...
Skipping... (no relevant changes detected)
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I should also point out that there only is 6 files in the project from the build-log above.
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Oh! I just remember that I played around with the system date on my computer when testing a expire-after-date "feature". I accidentally reset the current month to june!
Anyways, setting it back to july solved the problem.
Thanks a lot.
Anyways, setting it back to july solved the problem.
Thanks a lot.
Why only a B grade *sniff*
2. When it rebuilds, it compiles file by file or just links to libraries?