Rebuilding IDE - how much time?

[YoupMelon]

Hi all,

If you guys rebuild Lazarus, how much time take does this take, usually?

Recently (for the first time) I tried to install a package and rebuild the IDE. But I broke this off after 40 minutes or so.
Is it normal that rebuilding takes so much time, or am I doing something incorrectly?
BTW, I do have an old PC (128 MB).

Many thanks in advance.

[Thaddy]

Even on a raspberry pi it builds in minutes.. 40 minutes is excessive.
What OS? How much disk space? What CPU?

[marcov]

128MB is extremely low, I already had more in the nineties.

You don't mention OS, this matters specially when smartlinking, the memory consumption of LD can go through the roof. (1GB+ is possible).

On Windows, the last time I checked for memory requirements, the internal linker eats about 250MB when linking lazarus with smartlinking.

I know it is less without smartlinking, but I don't know those figures by heart.

[Pascal]

90 s: Win 10 x86_64, i5 4440, SSD

[Martin_fr]

Within the 40 minutes, does it reach "linking" ?

Make sure to disable smart linking. smart linking needs lots of memory.
(iirc/afaik open project ide/lazarus.lpi and turn setting of there.

Also if you are low on memory, in tools > options > "message window"
reduce "max parallel processes" to 1 (or they compete for your memory).

But with that low mem, it still will take a lot of time

[YoupMelon]

Many thanks for all respondents!
Great help!