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From: marwk@levels.sait.edu.au
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Subject: Re: TURBOC make with command lines > 127 chars - SOLVED!!
Message-ID: <15789.277ce62a@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 29 Dec 90 18:53:30 GMT
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In article <997@pdxgate.UUCP>, berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>
>>I have a makefile which has:
>>OBJS = a.obj b.obj c.obj \
>>       (several more files here ...)  \
>>       x.obj y.obj z.obj
>
>>$(EFILE):  $(OBJS)
>>    tcc  -c -m$(MM)  $(OBJS)
>
>
>>The tcc line gets converted to:
>
>>    tcc -emain.exe -ms a.obj b.obj ...
>>x.obj y.obj z.obj
>
>>and the message
>>Fatal: Cammand arguments too long
>>appears.
>
>>In the reference manual Appendix D it states that the command line cannot
>>be longer than 127 characters a DOS limitation.
>
>>How can I produce the desired exe file using make with this limitation?
>

The problem originated (by me) arose as I did not realise that TCC automatically
called TLINK - having been informed of this the solution is easy, to use TLINK
and a response file.

Note that TCC does not allow the use of response files.

In OBJ_LIST.RSP:
a.obj   +
b.obj   +
c.obj   +
...
z.obj



Instead of

>>$(EFILE):  $(OBJS)
>>    tcc  -c -m$(MM)  $(OBJS)

I now use

$(EFILE):  $(OBJS)
    tlink  /x/c d:\tc\lib\C0$(MM) @obj_list.rsp, $(EFILE),, d:\tc\lib\C$(MM)

which allows as many .obj files as one wishes.

As pointed out by one of the respondents this requires the maintenance of
2 lists: one in the response file and another in the OBJS list defined in the
makefile itself.  I can live with this minor inconvenience; change the .rsp
file and read it into the makefile and reorganise lines.

Ray