Can GWT be configured to create cache files in other location than the user's home folder?

Question

I have a large project which I am compiling with GWT. During this process GWT generates some cache files in C:\Documents and Settings\[UserDir]\Local Settings\Temp\. For example:

gwt60627byte-cache (86,321 KB)
gwt60628byte-cache (4,445 KB)
gwt60629byte-cache (53,773 KB)
gwt60696byte-cache (8,111 KB)
gwt60697byte-cache (572,777 KB)

I know GWT’s performance isn’t that great, and there are not a lot of things to do speed it up, but my project is on drive D: which is faster than C:, so I want to move these cache files on the same drive.

But that is not the primary reason. I am also concerned about the size of these files reported to the free space I have left on C: (which ain't much). I am not doing a full project compile yet, but when I do I don't think the HDD will handle it.

How can I have these cache files generated in another location?

Thank you.

Answer 1

The GWT compiler has a -workDir option that defaults to the system temp directory. You can change that to have the cache files written somewhere else.