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From: "Michael Allison" <mallison AT mnr DOT gov DOT on DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Gcc and Win2000
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:14:53 -0400
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"Damian Yerrick" <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> wrote in
message news:ktabrssasrtoeuqd5hkmm50li4ei733to1 AT 4ax DOT com...
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:27:41 -0400, "Michael Allison"
> <allisom AT gov DOT on DOT ca> wrote:
>
> >One workaround [for the Win2k three level DPMI bug] is to use the
> >Gnu-make from mingw, which runs as a native Win32 executable.  Put
> >it earlier in your path than the djgpp make for instance.
>
> But can it pass long commandlines to DJGPP programs (e.g. for
> freepuzzlearena the gcc command to link all the .o files together
> is 160 characters)?

That isn't necessary for everyone, and your mileage may vary.
Some people do this sort of thing in their Makefile instead:

OBJ01=myobj01.o myobj02.o myobj03.o myobj04.o
OBJ02=myobj05.o myobj06.o myobj07.o myobj08.o
OBJ03=myobj09.o myobj10.o myobj11.o myobj12.o

myprog.exe: myprog.lnk
    gcc $(LFLAGS) -omyprog.exe @myprog.lnk $(LIBRARIES)

myprog.lnk: $(OBJ01) $(OBJ02) $(OBJ03)
    @echo $(OBJ01) > $@
    @echo $(OBJ02) >> $@
    @echo $(OBJ03) >> $@