Is there a 'ccache' for Visual Studio?

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amit kumar picture amit kumar · Dec 7, 2009 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

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.

Answer

Frerich Raabe picture Frerich Raabe · Dec 22, 2010

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

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