[Scons-users] time profile

[Philipp Kraus]

Am 08.06.2013 um 21:39 schrieb Dirk Bächle:


> Hi Phil,

> 

> On 08.06.2013 18:26, Philipp Kraus wrote:

>> Hello,

>> 

>> can I get some "profile information" of the building steps? I have got a project with different build targets (resources, dlls, ...) and I would like to get the compile & linking time of each source.

>> My idea is to implementate a pseudo builder, that starts the time before the builder is called and stop it after that and stores the difference in a global data structure. I would like to

>> push the profiling information at the end into a database.

>> 

>> Do you have an idea to create this profiling information?

> 

> you could try to override the "spawn" function that gets used internally whenever a command action is executed. Note, that this approach will miss out on builders/actions that are defined as Python functions, but you probably don't have many of those.

> Check out

> 

>  http://scons.org/wiki/LongCmdLinesOnWin32

> 

> to get an idea of how to proceed. To my knowledge there is no per target/source information collected by default when SCons is run. So you'll have to invent your own routines for tracking the times and file paths.



nice, thanks, I have used the spawn for some times ago with the LongCommandLine Problem :-)
I'm thinking this a good starting point...

Phil