[Jade-plugins-devs] Patch for jade-native-msvc to use response files for the linker.

[Juan J. G. de S. L. <ska...@gm...>]

Hi everybody.


When trying to compile Xerces-C 3.0.1 with the Jade Native Plugin and
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, I've hit a well-beyond-16kB command line
for the linker. This totally failed for me.

I attach a patch that moves the MSVC linker command line to use a
responseFile file in the output directory, into which the command line
arguments are written. This is then passed to the linker as only one
"object file" like @<path-to-responseFile>.

This made the compilation work for me.

I would suggest extending this kind of mechanism to the base linker
class, allowing the derived class to specify whether it supports
response files or not. This would be useful since gcc-mingw in Windows
is subjected to the same command line length limits, but GNU tools
seem to have supported @-based response files in order to overcome
this for a long time. Please see
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Response_Files.


Best regards,

   Juan Jesus.

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