How to improve link performance for a large C++ application in VS2005

Question

We have fairly large C++ application which is composed of about 60 projects in Visual Studio 2005. It currently takes 7 minutes to link in Release mode and I would like to t

Answer 1

I don't think converting to DLLs would be useful. You could try looking for options to do with optimisation, and turning them off. The linker might be spending a long time looking over the libs for redundant code it can eliminate. Your app may end up bigger or slower, but that may not be a problem to you.