Parallel Compiling?

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Is there any way to get Visual Studio to use more than one core when
compiling a project? It's utterly ridiculous when it takes over an hour
to compile something like Qt under windows which I can do in around 5
minutes under linux (using distcc to distribute the load across available
desktops and servers on the network).

I'm not even going to ask VS to do what I can do with gcc and distcc. If
it could simply at least take full advantage of the machine it's running
on that would already be a giant step forward. It really is sad when you
have a quad-core system sitting there compiling away at over a thousand
source files using only 1 core with the other 3 idle.

So far, the closest I've been able to google on any parallel compile
ability is MSBuild, however that seems to only be able to do this on a
per-project basis. That does little good though if you don't have more
than one project.

Am I just blind or is this really lacking? Google so far has revealed
next to absolutely nothing useful.

Thanks,

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