Feature request: precompiled headers?

[ghost]

Hi, Doug!

Wouldn't be great to compile code at runtime using precompiled headers?

Due to nature of openFrameworks (which pulls lots and lots of headers from variety of libraries) right now my ofAppLive project takes about 5 seconds to recompile a source file at runtime with RCC++, and it's the same time needed for standard recompiling. But if I use Cotire CMake module that precompiles headers automatically for me, the compile time is reduced to less than a second!

What do you think, will it be possible to use this technique with RCC++?

Thanks!

[dougbinks]

Precompiled headers can be used with runtime compiled C++ already by specifying the required compile option using RuntimeObjectSystem::SetAdditionalCompileOptions(). I think you'll need to set up your project manually to use them, or figure out the options Cotire is using so you can use those.

Let me know if you need any help with this, and I'll leave the feature request open until we can verify that you can get this to work without any changes to RCC++.

[ghost]

@dougbinks ok, I got it working and now it compiles almost as fast as with Cotire, but I've noticed one strange thing: why ObjectInterfacePerModuleSource.cpp compiles with my source file on each runtime change? Is it required at all? If yes, why not precompile it to object file?

[ghost]

Here's how compile command looks like (notice ofApp.cpp and ObjectInterfacePerModuleSource.cpp):

clang++  -g -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -shared -Os -I"../RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/Aurora/RuntimeObjectSystem" -I"../RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/Aurora/RuntimeCompiler" -I"/usr/include/AL" -I"/usr/include/cairo" -I"/usr/include/gtk-3.0" -I"/usr/include/atk-1.0" -I"/usr/include/glib-2.0" -I"/usr/include/harfbuzz" -I"/usr/include/pixman-1" -I"/usr/include/libpng12" -I"/usr/include/pango-1.0" -I"/usr/include/freetype2" -I"/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0" -I"/usr/include/gstreamer-1.0" -I"/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0" -I"/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0" -I"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/3d" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/app" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/communication" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/events" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/gl" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/graphics" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/math" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/sound" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/types" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/utils" -I"../../of/src/openframeworks/video" -I"../../of/src/freeimage" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR/Half" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR/Iex" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR/IlmImf" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR/IlmThread" -I"../../of/src/freeimage/OpenEXR/Imath" -I"../../of/src/glew" -I"../../of/src/glew/include" -I"../../of/src/glfw" -I"../../of/src/glfw/include" -I"../../of/src/glfw/include/GLFW" -I"../../of/src/kissfft" -I"../../of/src/kissfft/tools" -I"../../of/src/libtess2" -I"../../of/src/libtess2/Include" -I"../../of/src/libtess2/Source" -I"../../of/src/poco" -I"../../of/src/poco/Crypto/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/Foundation/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/Net/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/NetSSL_OpenSSL/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/Util/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/XML/include" -I"../../of/src/poco/Zip/include" -I"../../of/src/rtaudio" -I"../../of/src/rtaudio/include" -I"../../of/src/utf8cpp" -I"../../of/src/utf8cpp/include" -I"../RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/Aurora" -I".." -L"../../of/lib-linux/release" -F"../../of/lib-linux/release" -o /tmp/RCCppTempDylib0ZYZh9 -include /mnt/space/Projects/ofLiveApp/build/cotire/ofApp_CXX_prefix.hxx "../src/ofApp.cpp" "../RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/Aurora/RuntimeObjectSystem/ObjectInterfacePerModuleSource.cpp"  -DRCCPP -DOF_USING_GTK -DOF_USING_MPG123 -DOF_SOUND_PLAYER_OPENAL -DOF_SOUNDSTREAM_RTAUDIO -DOF_VIDEO_PLAYER_GSTREAMER -DOF_VIDEO_CAPTURE_GSTREAMER -Wno-switch -Wno-c++11-narrowing -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-register -std=gnu++11 -lPocoFoundation -lassimp -lfreeimage -lglew -lglfw -lkissfft -lopenFrameworks -lPocoCrypto -lPocoJSON -lPocoNet -lPocoNetSSL -lPocoUtil -lPocoXML -lrtaudio -ltess2 -lboost_filesystem -lboost_system -lrt -ldl -lXi -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXxf86vm -lXinerama -ludev -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lz -lasound -lopenal -lcairo -lGLU -lGL -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lssl -lcrypto -lsndfile -lfreetype -lgstreamer-1.0 -lfontconfig -lpthread -lgstapp-1.0 -lgstbase-1.0 -lgstvideo-1.0

[dougbinks]

Glad that you got this working - I'll close this issue as precompiled headers work for you.

The file ObjectInterfacePerModuleSource.cpp is indeed required, and currently the Posix compiler doesn't retain intermediates, as this is the default with gcc and clang. I should look into whether doing so would be a performance improvement, so I've opened a new feature request as #65.

[elliotwoods]

oops. wrong thread sorry!