Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 21:00:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines (> 32k) In-Reply-To: <20040408225311.GA29354@coc.bosbc.com> Message-ID: References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040408115748.039fb948@127.0.0.1> <20040408225311.GA29354@coc.bosbc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. > cgf -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/