Ah. Thanks. I'll try that. I was hoping to try and get along with something slightly less stodgy than Cygwin, though. I was also hoping to use MSYS so that I didn't need to use Cygwin or a windows IDE to produce the makefile. I've always thought that Cygwin was a little heavy for something that should be quite simple :)
Giles > -----Original Message----- > From: Norman Vine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 April 2004 21:28 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building FlightGear / getting some errors > > Andy Ross writes: > > > > Giles Robertson wrote: > > > Not that I've noticed. It would be useful for mingw32. I've tried > > > building on that, and it compiles fine, but the linker fails because > > > the input is too long ;). > > > > The linker fails with long file lists? That sounds odd -- > > The Windows cmd shell has a command line length limitation > that I get around by using MingW from a Cygwin bash shell. > > Compiling from a bash shell under MSYS might work too > I don't really know as I haven't used it > > Note when using bash under Cygwin you need to substitute > the Cygwin 'make' for the MingW 'make' and you will need to > configure using the appropriate --prefix argument for your system > > Perhaps the easiest way around this is to use the standard way > of overcoming the Windows command line length limitation by > redirecting the link command line to a file and then massaging that > so as to have the final linking arguments to gcc be read from that file > > I believe that this could be done using the --dry-run flag for make > but I have nevered tried this as I use a Cygwin shell as outlined above > > HTH > > Norman > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
