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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines (> 32k)
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:00:56AM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >The @filename syntax is used by MS's linker (Visual C++/Studio).  To my
> >knowledge gcc's linker doesn't support this syntax.
>
> The cygwin DLL supports it (implemented over my gagged and thrashing body)
> but only at a non-cygwin-shell command prompt, e.g.,

Good Gravy!!  Yikes!!  *Tell me* this is a late April Fool's joke!!  Please!!

> c:\>gcc -o foo @foo.blah
>
> works
>
> but
>
> bash$ gcc -o foo @foo.blah
>
> doesn't.
>
> I would highly recommend against using this construct, however.  It's better
> to use traditional unix methods for working around this problem.  Cygwin isn't
> the only unix-like system out there with a measly amount of space set aside for
> the command line.

The original post doesn't specify weither they are working inside of or
outside of a Cygwin environment, but from some of the comments I kinda
think it maybe outside of.  Something like:

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Johan Holmberg wrote:
>   Is ld.exe not interpreting the special "@" like other
>   Cygwin programs ?

Kinda makes me think he's running this from outside of any Cygwin shell.

But, my original suggestion, as well as your mention above, still stands:
use traditional unix methods, like static-link archive libraries.
Related to, but just as problematic, would be turning all of those object
files into a shared-library/DLL, which I encourage the original poster to
also consider if this program is ment to be run concurrently.

> cgf

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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