I’ve been experimenting a bit with the Windows builds through GitHub. Right now, they take over an hour to compile, which is a bit frustrating. One thing I tried was switching out Microsoft’s compiler for Clang.
Is there anyone willing to try out the new Windows build? In principle it should be a bit faster, particularly things like force fields - but I don’t have a good way to test.
@brockdyer03 - do I remember that you set up a Windows build?
I have been able to build on Windows, if you’d like me to try some stuff I am more than happy to, although I might not get to it until tomorrow.
The binary would be from this:
https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/suites/28317786892/artifacts/1926295402
Interestingly enough, this build is wayyyy slower than previous builds. Something interesting that I noticed is that it is using almost zero percent of my CPU, compared to previous builds using larger amounts of CPU power for most tasks.
Is it possible that you’re not building in parallel?
Weird. Okay, not merging that change.
On the GitHub builds for Windows, if I switch to parallel builds with ninja, all kinds of chaos occurs. I’ve spent some time looking at it, but I’m going to give up for now.
Just as some extra information, when I compile and build Av2 from source on my local machine it is similarly slow.