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 had solved my link problem and share to all of you.

My project's link time was 7 min with /Incremental:no linking (link time 7min).

Was 15 min with /Incremental, (link time 7min, embeded manifest time 7min). So I turn off the inremental.

I found Additional dependencies has a.lib AND ignore specific libraries has, too!

So I remove it from Ignore specific libraries turn on the /incremental. first link time need 5min but embeded manifest time has none.

I don't know why, but the incremental linking has worked.

I rollback all project code , so I could find the problem by the lib. If you do all of above, you can try my method. Good luck!