Your question is not about threads, but processes (jobs) executed by make. The simple, way to set this, when make is used from the console is adding: alias make=”/usr/bin/make -j 8″ to your .profile file. You can also use setenv MAKEFLAGS ‘-j 8’, but MAKEFLAGS can ignore this parameter in some scenarios, because keeping desired … Read more
Tools -> Options Projects and Solutions\VC++ Project Settings Maximum concurrent C++ compilations Also, as Ross Smith said in the comments, you also need to turn on the “Multiprocessor compilation” option on the project: Project properties Configuration Properties > C/C++ > General Multi-Processor Compilation Profit!
With CMake 3.12 this is possible. From the release notes: The cmake(1) Build a Project (cmake –build) gained –parallel [<jobs>] and -j [<jobs>] options to specify a parallel build level. They map to corresponding options of the native build tool. As mentioned by dkg, you can also set the environment variable CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL. Links to CMake’s … Read more