Re: [cdt-dev] Using nmake with managed builds

[Alex Chapiro <achapiro@xxxxxxx>]

I included the following command into make file (WinXP) :

gcc -c -D$(TTTTT) myFile.c

where TTTTT contained 7000 characters and  launched it. File myFile.c 
was successfully compiled. Are you talking about this command line?

Recoskie, Chris wrote:

> Like Mikhail says, the make utility (whether it's GNU make, nmake, any
> make-alike will do) issues the commands via the OS shell.  The OS (in
> this case, windows) will generally have a limitation on the length of a
> command.
>
> Make and nmake themselves don't limit the length to my knowledge, but
> when they try to invoke the command via the shell, it fails due to the
> length issue.
>
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> Chris Recoskie
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> >    
> On
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> > Behalf Of Alex Chapiro
> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:52 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Using nmake with managed builds
> >
> > If you are talking about make command line, you can for example
> >    
> instead
>  
>
> > of generating long command line , create temporary make file, fill it
> > with your command line arguments and add include Makefile at the end
> >    
> of
>  
>
> > it, then launch make --file=<tempFile>, then remove <tempFile>. If you
> > are taking about length limitation of commands in make file, I don't
> > know about it. Does it really exist?
> >
> > Sennikovsky, Mikhail wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Cygwin make has also command length limitation, that actually has to
> > >      
> do
>  
>
> > > with the command length limitation on windows in general.
> > > Please see the bugzilla# 72965 related to this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mikhail
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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> > > On Behalf Of vladchuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:32 PM
> > > To: Cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [cdt-dev] Using nmake with managed builds
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Apparently, nmake  has a makefile command length limitation (is it
> > >      
> 1024
>  
>
> > > chars?) so it is  impossible to use it with anything but trivial
> > > projects.
> > > Does anybody know  how toget around this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > vladchuk
> > >
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