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: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:34:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines (> 32k) In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040409091358.02873248@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040408115748.039fb948@127.0.0.1> <20040408225311.GA29354@coc.bosbc.com> <6.0.1.1.0.20040409091358.02873248@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > 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? Hmmm... Ok, you are correct, I was ambiguous. To be clear: I tried running gcc from a DOS Command Prompt, using the @file syntax and having /usr/bin & /usr/lib mounted with "-X" and this worked. This is the same way in which Johan would be running it, and so I kinda implied this would work for him in the mode he currently works in. I didn't bother doing this from within a Cygwin shell (bash, tcsh, zsh, etc) because the @file syntax wouldn't work, and Johan specificically wanted to be able to use this form. > Thanks, -- 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/