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

[Martin Dobias]

On 9/23/06, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Martin Dobias wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks for the information, it might be good to include that to CMake
documentation.


> 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.

That would be great! I'm sending that build.make off the list.


Martin