Hi,
Unity Build is now enabled on CI for Qt Base, on dev branch, for the following
platforms: INTEGRITY, Windows 10 MinGW, Windows 11 MinGW, which are among the
slowest platforms on our CI.
Here is a brief note about the unity build, and what you should expect:
* Unity build achieves a faster build by pooling several source files into
one translation unit and compiling that instead of individually compiling every
source file. This means the build is especially susceptible to duplicate symbol
collision. If you notice such instances,
* Try resolving the issue, as it is often achievable in a reasonable
timeframe. If not,
* You can exclude the file from the unity build, by adding it to
NO_UNITY_BUILD_SOURCES, which is available in most of our qt_internal_* CMake
APIs, e.g., qt_internal_add_tool. When doing so, please leave a brief comment
and/or TODO on why/how to resolve the issue.
* If an entire target is troublesome, and resolving the issue needs
major work, you can exclude it from the unity build by passing NO_UNITY_BUILDto
the respective qt_internal_* call.
* You can enable the unity build locally by passing -unity-build and
-unity-build-batch-size to configure, or use -DQT_UNITY_BUILDif you are using
CMake. Default batch size is 32.
* We have tested the build with batch size of 32. Changing the batch size
may result in undiscovered symbol collisions, or other issues.
* Tests and examples are not being built using unity build at the moment.
While at the moment, we are only partially enabling the unity build for Qt Base
on CI, the build should be successful on other platforms as well. Other Qt
modules can be built with unity build as well, with varying degrees of success.
Please give it a try, and let us know if you ran into issues, either by opening
a bug report, or submitting a patch!
P.S. Unity build for Qt was initially discussed here:
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2023-January/043518.html.
Best,
Amir.
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