At 11:50 AM 4/8/2004, you wrote: >Hi ! > >I tried to compile/link an application consisting of several hundred >C/C++ files. This gives quite a long command line when it is time >to link the application. > >Windows seem to have a limit of 32k for the length of the command >line as given to to the system call 'CreateProcess'. I guess this is >a "hard" limit in Windows. > >The length of my linker command line exceeds this 32k limit. > >Is it possible to pass a list of filenames to ld >in some other way, to get around this limit ? > >I know about the special "@filename" syntax in Cygwin, but there >seem to be two problems: > >- it is no idea to give the special @filename argument to "gcc.exe", > since it is calling other exe-files and will have problems itself > to pass the file list on to these (ld, collect2, ...) > >- I tried to specify "-Wl,@files.txt" to "gcc.exe", hoping that > "@files.txt" would be picked up by "ld.exe", but I got the error > message: > ld: @files.txt: No such file: No such file or directory > > Is ld.exe not interpreting the special "@" like other > Cygwin programs ? > > >Am I missing some obvious way of doing what I want ?
Did you try this? <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01300.html> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
