At 12:00 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: >On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote: >> >A short description of my enironment: >> > >> >- the programs I'm building are C/C++ compilers >> > >> >- I use GCC in Cygwin to get a "second opinion" from another compiler >> > than the one we use normally (Visual C++). >> > >> >- I use Cons as my build tool (a Perl program). >> > I use ActiveState Perl (not Cygwin Perl). >> > >> >So yes, I'm working "outside a Cygwin environment". >> >> Ok, so, sorry, but I wasn't thinking clearly. The '-X' option to mount >> only works when a cygwin programs which invoke another cygwin program. >> If you have a normal windows program running a cygwin program, your only >> option for a longer command line is (shudder) '@'. > >Well, Chris, for better or worst, this "feature" does seem to work. I >did a quick test of this using an @file which is 81k long and it works! >You will need to remount both /usr/bin and /usr/lib with the "--system >--binary -X" options. Then put your list of objects into @file and run >gcc @file. >For the record, I still feel that a better practice is to do archiving of >object files and link with the library, but if this gets you going, this >time, more power to ya.
But wait. You're mixing advice (Chris's) it seems. He said @file would be a solution if you were working outside of Cygwin shells and that remounting with -X could be a solution if you were inside. So it sounds like you tried both, and perhaps together, but it's unclear whether you ran your tests from a Cygwin shell prompt, a Windows DOS prompt, or both. Can you clarify what you tried and where? Thanks, -- 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/
