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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:

--- Quote from: jan3er on December 30, 2009, 01:31:23 PM ---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.

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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:

--- Quote from: saratoga on December 30, 2009, 02:04:03 PM ---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. 

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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.

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