[CMake] The input line is too long (MinGW)

[Brad King]

Martin Dobias wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I'll assume you're using the MSYS Makefiles generator.  Please let me
>> know if this is not the case.
> 
> No, I'm using MinGW Makefiles generator. Now I've tried alse MSYS
> Makefiles generator and linking works correctly with both 2.4.3 and
> CVS version.
> 
> What's the difference between MinGW and MSYS generators? Only
> difference I'm aware of is that MSYS generator uses sh.exe for running
> make commands. Are there any pros and cons?
> 
> What generator should I prefer for building?
> 
> That error with MinGW makefiles is simply a limitation or could be fixed?

Both generators should work.  The difference is that MinGW and MSYS both 
come with their own make.  For years the projects had problems with 
people confusing their makes so they renamed the MinGW one to 
"mingw32-make".  The original MSYS make is still called "make".  They 
expect different path formats (windows v. posix) and use different 
shells (sh v. cmd).

The MinGW Makefiles generator creates makefiles meant for mingw32-make. 
  If you run MSYS's make with MinGW makefiles it probably won't work.

We should be able to fix the MinGW make line-too-long problem.  That 
generator should be using a "link script" design to avoid listing large 
counts of object files on the command line in the makefile.  Please send 
me the actual command line from the build.make file that is causing the 
line-too-long error.  It should be in CMakeFiles/mytarget.dir/build.make 
for the target that is not linking.

Thanks,
-Brad