[Insight-users] ITK 4.2.10 compilation takes really long on Windows 7

[John Drescher]

> I used cmake 2.8.10 to configure, tried both VS 2010 and VS 2012 Express, on
> a Windows 7 Enterprise OS. After VS loaded the project, it just takes really
> long (hours) to scan and load up all the files (every time when I switch
> build type from "debug" to "release", it repeats the same process). Then
> finally when it's ready to compile, it just seems hang up at "checking build
> system". I had to abort it after nothing come out of it after more than 10
> hours (over night).
>
> Is this normal?
>

No. There is something very wrong with your hard drive, OS or Visual
Studio installation. Or you have a very low end system with not enough
ram.

John