It seems this might have been a common question but a search of the forum doesn't find anything.
Microsoft says VB6 is supported on Win 7 (x86 only) to I tried it. The IDE works fine but the build is too slow to be usable.
A VB6 project that builds the .exe from the command line in six-seven minutes on XP took 1:20 on a modern (i5/4GB) Win 7 x86 machine with nothing extra installed beyond the dev environment.
I could see it was slowly trucking along making VB*.tmp files, so I let it run. A working executable finally popped out the other end. The CPU was 25% and the disk queue was essentially zero. What was it doing for an hour and 20 minutes?
Any ideas on what's causing the slowdown?
Microsoft says VB6 is supported on Win 7 (x86 only) to I tried it. The IDE works fine but the build is too slow to be usable.
A VB6 project that builds the .exe from the command line in six-seven minutes on XP took 1:20 on a modern (i5/4GB) Win 7 x86 machine with nothing extra installed beyond the dev environment.
I could see it was slowly trucking along making VB*.tmp files, so I let it run. A working executable finally popped out the other end. The CPU was 25% and the disk queue was essentially zero. What was it doing for an hour and 20 minutes?
Any ideas on what's causing the slowdown?