compiling plugins

[jan3er]

i am trying to write my frist plugin.
everytime i want to test it i am building the whole rockbox with cygwin.
this takes a lot of time, so i'm making very slow progress.
is there a way to compile only a single file? like, let's say test.c to test.rock?
that would make things much easier

[saratoga]

i am trying to write my frist plugin.
everytime i want to test it i am building the whole rockbox with cygwin.
this takes a lot of time, so i'm making very slow progress.

After the first time you compile rockbox, only files that are changed are compiled, so if you're just editing a plugin compiling shouldn't take more then a few seconds. 

Are you by any chance doing a make clean first?  If so, don't.

[jan3er]

thanks a lot, thats what i did wrong

[gulak]

After the first time you compile rockbox, only files that are changed are compiled, so if you're just editing a plugin compiling shouldn't take more then a few seconds. 

It takes sometime to check which sources have changed.
A slightly faster is if you only enter:
make rocks
Much faster is if you write a Makefile to only build the plugin.