Re: [Mingw-users] Command line problem

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza wrote:
> 
> At 04:35 AM 10/18/2000 -0500, you [camilo ramos] wrote:
> 
> >   Bloodshed and the other from Mr. Khan's. With both I have the problem
> >   that gcc does not accept more than ~145 characters in its command
> 
>     What's the version of Windows you're using?
> 
>     Try using MinGW tools only, with Cygwin bash renamed to sh.exe and set
> in a directory that IS in the path, and use just plain SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
>     That works just fine for me on Windows 2000. I can run linker lines
> that don't even fit in a 80x50 console screen without problems. If I don't
> do the sh stuff as above, make creates batch files in order to run the
> commands, and Windows 2000 allows up to 4K of arguments only, which is not
> enough for me. If you're using something like Windows 95, I'm sure there
> are much worse restrictions.

Just another datapoint: a 1400-character linker command line in
a makefile works for me, using gnu make with
  win95 OSR2
  'SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:4096 /P' in /config.sys