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From: "S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
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To: Richard Nichols <tiberius AT mailhost DOT net>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:13:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: Help me with RHIDE
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On  6 Jan 98, Richard Nichols was found to have commented thusly:

> I've been using RHIDE for about 1 year now but I have always had
> a problem with having too many files in my projects to link.
> I have about 16 object files to link and this surpasses the 128
> characters commandline limit and then the rest gets truncated.
> 
> This results in some objects not getting linked or the linker
> getting half a file name and dying. I know I can go to
> project->writemakefile and then make -fmyproj.mak from dos but
> is there are way I can just extend the limit?
> 
> any help would be appreciated (and prefered by email)
> 

The RHide developers can/will comment on this, but I rather think you 
must be talking about something other than RHide.  I have projects 
with well >16 files and there is no problem in building/making.  
In fact, RHide has an execution/action window which displays the 
command it is sending to gcc for each compile and then the link, 
and for my particular project, it must be nearly 800-900 
characters long for just the link!

You are probably invoking gcc from a DOS command line and running 
into problems there.  Probably if you use the djgpp bash shell rather 
than MS-DOS' shell, you will not run up into any limit.

But for your multi-source project, you really need to become familiar 
with GNU's make system as ported by the djgpp distribution or you can 
use RHide.  Using GNU's make can be a real headache, especially if 
you are preparing makefiles with MS-DOS edit.com, which has a hard 
time keeping tabs.  There is also 100 pages of make to read;  my hat 
is off to Stallman and Co. for such thorough documentation, but for 
now, RHide is my style.  The IDE is good now, and its developer(s) 
show a keen interest in making it the best thing around (God and GNU 
forbid they should go commercial :).

Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara   TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr

other job title:  Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy