What does this compiler build statement mean?

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What does this compiler build statement mean?

Hi everybody,

I am a programming student in my second OOP class, which is taught in C++, and I am using Visual Studio 2008.

I keep encountering this weird statement when I build my project in VS, my project builds fine, I would just like to know what it means. It appears every time I build my project, doesn't matter if I click rebuild or what configuration I use.

Thanks!

The statement:

LINK : C:\Users\Alex\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Project_2\Debug\Project_2.exe not found or not built by the last incremental link; performing full link

The complete build log is here

Does this help?

See also this

Tim 2010-01-17 04:08:03

Yes they help, I appreciate it.

Alex 2010-01-17 04:26:18

Please post a sumary of those. That way people can 1) see a useful answer even if the site linked to is down, and 2) get an answer *here* on the page where the question is. And we have something to actually vote up or down. -1 until some actual content appears.

jalf 2010-01-17 05:26:48

Downvoting answers with useful links is really helpful... You have plenty of hitpoints - if it is so important to you, then just edit my answer.

Tim 2010-01-17 20:02:29

+3 A:

You can safely ignore it.

Incremental linking speeds things up. What happens is that rather then do a link from scratch, it uses the results of the last link to speed things up.

If it can't do an incremental link, it issues you that warning and does a full link. All it means is that it will take longer to link.

R Samuel Klatchko 2010-01-17 04:17:19

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