Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:53:12 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines (> 32k) Message-ID: <20040408225311.GA29354@coc.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20040408115748 DOT 039fb948 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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) '@'. cgf -- 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/