feat: #209 Added an option to set the amount of concurrent jobs while…

… running make

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
 ### Added
  - Issue #206: Did not build anything else than elf files due to the all recipe not being correct.
  - Issue #212: On Windows threw an error because the build folder was already there. Now checks before using the md command. Thanks to: qwertym88 
+ - Issue #209: Added an option to set the amount of concurrent jobs while running make
 
 ### Fixed
  - Reverted to single name build instead of a file tree based build output.
- - Linkerscript now uses a file for the objects it needs to link to prevent Windows based command line length issues.
+ - Linkerscript now uses a file for the objects it needs to link to prevent Windows based command line length issues. Fixes issue #210
  - Issue #217 when using a number as the target it is converted to a number in the yaml spec. Now convert it to a string to prevent this.
 
 ## [3.2.8] - 2024-09-05

package.json

@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@
           "default": "",
           "description": "Path to the make executable (e.g. make or ~/usr/bin/make), will use the one in PATH as standard."
         },
+
+        "stm32-for-vscode.makeConcurrentJobs": {
+          "type": "number",
+          "default": "16",
+          "description": "The amount of concurrent jobs make is allowed to do."
+        },
         "stm32-for-vscode.armToolchainPath": {
           "type": "string",
           "default": "",

src/BuildTask.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 
 import {
   EXTENSION_CONFIG_NAME,
+  MAKE_DEFAULT_CONCURRENT_JOBS,
   makefileName,
   STM32_ENVIRONMENT_FILE_NAME,
 } from './Definitions';
@@ -173,7 +174,10 @@ export default async function buildSTM(options?: { flash?: boolean; cleanBuild?:
     info = await getInfo(currentWorkspaceFolder);
     await createSTM32EnvironmentFileWhenRequired(info.tools);
     const makeFlags = info.makeFlags.length > 0 ? ` ${info.makeFlags.join(' ')}` : '';
-    const makeArguments = `-j16${makeFlags} -f ${makefileName}`;
+    const extensionConfiguration = workspace.getConfiguration('stm32-for-vscode');
+    const concurrentJobs = extensionConfiguration.get('makeConcurrentJobs', MAKE_DEFAULT_CONCURRENT_JOBS);
+
+    const makeArguments = `-j${concurrentJobs}${makeFlags} -f ${makefileName}`;
     if (cleanBuild) {
       try {
         await executeTask(

src/Definitions.ts

@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ export const TOOL_SETTINGS = {
   openOCDInterface: 'openOCDInterface',
 };
 export const GITHUB_ISSUES_URL = 'https://github.com/bmd-studio/stm32-for-vscode/issues';
+export const MAKE_DEFAULT_CONCURRENT_JOBS = 16;