----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dessent" > > > 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. > I believe it's a limitation on the number of characters that can be typed into the command prompt, rather than a limitation on the size of the command that can be executed. I'm not really set up to test this out conclusively, but I've certainly used the above method to run a command in the MSYS shell that was too big to run in the cmd.exe shell. (I think that I've had `cat cmd.txt` work where the command has been too big to fit into the MSYS shell prompt as a copy'n'paste - but I'm not sure as I don't usually bother with a copy'n'paste.) Cheers, Rob
