How to disable --parallel job specification

[timharry]

It documentation says to set the parallel jobs value to 1 for this to not be passed into the arguments of the generator... But when I set it to 1, my build command looks like:

cmake --build buildDir --parallel 1 --target all

This obviously sets the job number to 1, instead of not specifying to at all.

How can I get this to not specify the job number? I'm using ninja as my generator, and my cmake tools version 1.17.17.

[gcampbell-msft]

@timharry Taking a look at the code, the suggestion you mention only applies to msbuild generators. Otherwise, we either use what you set in that setting, or we have a default that we grab based on the number of CPUs.

vscode-cmake-tools/src/config.ts

Line 18 in ec03fc1

export function defaultNumJobs (): number {

[gcampbell-msft]

To help us understand whether you'd like this as a feature request, what is your scenario such that you don't want to specify this in the command-line?

If you'd like this as a feature, please create an issue with the details so that we can track it better. Thanks!