David Lamy-Charrier wrote: > I am using GCC on Windows XP Professionnal which has a limit on > command line size at 8192 Bytes. > > Unfortunately, with a lot of include paths and defines on the compile > line and a lot of object files paths on the linker line, I reached > this 8 KB limit very easily. > > So, I am wondering if there is a way to pass all arguments to GCC in a file ?? > (I know that Microsoft cl.exe support this feature) If you are using Cygwin, then mount the binary cygexec. This bypasses the windows limitations and allows virtually unlimited command lengths. There is support in the mainline gcc and binutils for using '@file' to specify arguments, just as with the Microsoft C compilers. But you'll probably have to build it yourself from CVS. Sisyphus wrote: > I get around this by putting the entire command in a file (cmd.txt), then > running (in an MSYS shell): > `cat cmd.txt` I don't see how that changes anything. The shell just reads the command from the file and then constructs the arguments from that. It does nothing to shorten the actual gcc command that must be executed. Brian
