[Dev-C++] [Help] Unable to link lots of object files

[Tom C. <jat...@gm...>]

I have just migrated a fairly large project from Visual C++ to Dev-C++ and
GCC, and am experiencing trouble at the final hurdle: my system refuses to
link all of the project's object files.

After much experimenting on my part, it seems quite simply that if the
command line is too long when running g++ (via make) to link my 60-odd
object files, g++ fails to load and the error "Bad command or file name" is
given. This happens regardless of whether I run make directly from the
command line or via the Compile and Run option in Dev-C++.

So, for example, the first command below fails with "Bad command or file
name", while the second works. I need all my object files, though, so that's
no good.

g++.exe [~60 .o files here] -o"prog.exe" [some -L and -l tags]
g++.exe [~40 .o files here] -o"prog.exe" [some -L and -l tags]

Does anyone know of any way to circumvent this desperately frustrating
problem? Is there, for example, a way to combine object files so I have
fewer of them? At the moment I have one object file for each CPP file I'm
compiling.

I am using Windows Me (for all my sins), GCC 3.2 (Mingw version), and
Dev-C++ 4.9.8.0.

--Tom