In my online research, I was finding limits more like 1024 or 2048 characters maximum. But if 32767 bytes is the real limit, and there are no compatibility issues with certain programs for values longer than 1024 characters, that would be great. -- Daniel
-----Original Message----- From: CMake [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Somerville Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CMake] Copying DLLs to output directory On 31/10/2014 20:46, Daniel Schepler wrote: > And what if there are more dependencies? For example, we have a project here > that uses Qt, Boost, OGRE, MYGUI, GDAL, Protobuf and EXPAT at least. And > then if some of those builds aren't self-contained, you could add in > dependencies like OpenSSL, libjpeg, libpng, etc. It seems like all those > PATH entries could easily end up overflowing Windows' limit on the length of > PATH. Seriously? 32,767 bytes maximum in an environment variable. If you blow that then I suggest installing all those packages somewhere nearer the filesystem root! Regards Bill. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
