Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines (> 32k)

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 11:50 AM 4/8/2004, you wrote:

>Hi !
>
>I tried to compile/link an application consisting of several hundred
>C/C++ files. This gives quite a long command line when it is time
>to link the application.
>
>Windows seem to have a limit of 32k for the length of the command
>line as given to to the system call 'CreateProcess'. I guess this is
>a "hard" limit in Windows.
>
>The length of my linker command line exceeds this 32k limit.
>
>Is it possible to pass a list of filenames to ld
>in some other way, to get around this limit ?
>
>I know about the special "@filename" syntax in Cygwin, but there
>seem to be two problems:
>
>- it is no idea to give the special @filename argument to "gcc.exe",
>  since it is calling other exe-files and will have problems itself
>  to pass the file list on to these (ld, collect2, ...)
>
>- I tried to specify "-Wl,@files.txt" to "gcc.exe", hoping that
>  "@files.txt" would be picked up by "ld.exe", but I got the error
>  message:
>       ld: @files.txt: No such file: No such file or directory
>
>  Is ld.exe not interpreting the special "@" like other
>  Cygwin programs ?
>
>
>Am I missing some obvious way of doing what I want ?


Did you try this?

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01300.html>


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