Is there a 'ccache' for Visual Studio?

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I am aware that scons implements the functionality of ccache, but I am stuck with another build system.

I also know there is a gocache project on SourceForge that aims to implement ccache-like functionality for other compilers, but it seems not complete.

score 34 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 16:40

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A shameless plug, but I wrote a Python script which attempts to work just like ccache, except that it can wrap MSVC. See https://github.com/frerich/clcache

answered Dec 22 '10 at 16:40

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The github repo is marked as archived, so I assume this is no longer maintained. – Zitrax Dec 09 '22 at 13:20

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 13 '19 at 13:01

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There's an unofficial patch to ccache to support MSVC, but I haven't yet tried it myself...

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Peter Mortensen

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answered Apr 29 '10 at 13:08

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All information went away and there's no more textual description of how that was accomplished – eri0o Jul 24 '21 at 21:13
Nowadays, ccache has "B" level support for MSVC: https://ccache.dev/platform-compiler-language-support.html So that patch is not needed anymore. – Ignitor Sep 15 '22 at 09:43

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 13 '19 at 13:02

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https://github.com/inorton/cclash

It is a bit more of a plug. I've been using it to shave about 35% off our Cygwin Visual Studio 2012 builds.

edited Jul 13 '19 at 13:02

Peter Mortensen

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answered Feb 08 '14 at 10:17

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js.mouret · Answer 4 · 2020-04-11T12:47:24.237

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Stashed

It supports PDB, PCH, and has a nice dashboard.

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answered Aug 25 '17 at 05:47

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I think it is important to mention that stashed.io is not free but needs a license, because ccache is free. – Anupam Srivastava Sep 25 '18 at 08:34
Might no longer be maintained, last release in 2019 and several links on the homepage are dead. – Zitrax Dec 09 '22 at 13:16

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 13 '19 at 13:10

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Incredibuild is very nice, though it is more like distcc for Visual Studio than ccache.

If you want both ccache and distcc for a Visual Studio environment, try Stashed along with Incredibuild at the same time. It works a lot like ccache + distcc for Linux, without the configuration or administrative overhead.

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answered Sep 19 '17 at 13:05

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Incredibuild is also not free – pratikone Jan 14 '20 at 09:44

Is there a 'ccache' for Visual Studio?

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