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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOGEN_PARALLEL.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOGEN_PARALLEL.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..07fbc5a5e --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOGEN_PARALLEL.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +AUTOGEN_PARALLEL +---------------- + +Number of parallel ``moc`` or ``uic`` processes to start when using +:prop_tgt:`AUTOMOC` and :prop_tgt:`AUTOUIC`. + +The custom `<origin>_autogen` target starts a number of threads of which +each one parses a source file and on demand starts a ``moc`` or ``uic`` +process. :prop_tgt:`AUTOGEN_PARALLEL` controls how many parallel threads +(and therefore ``moc`` or ``uic`` processes) are started. + +- An empty (or unset) value or the string ``AUTO`` sets the number of + threads/processes to the number of physical CPUs on the host system. +- A positive non zero integer value sets the exact thread/process count. +- Otherwise a single thread/process is started. + +By default :prop_tgt:`AUTOGEN_PARALLEL` is initialized from +:variable:`CMAKE_AUTOGEN_PARALLEL`. + +See the :manual:`cmake-qt(7)` manual for more information on using CMake +with Qt. |