I am strugging wth building the Visualization ToolKit package for the Embarcadero RAD studio XE4 compiler. It uses CMake to create the makefiles and prepare for building. Now I have come across a showstopper where the CMake generated command to handle a library uses an exessively long commandline argument. Example:
tlib /p512 /a "..\bin\vtkFiltering.lib" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkAbstractMapper.obj" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkActor2D.obj" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkActor2DCollection.obj" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkAlgorithm.obj" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkAlgorithmOutput.obj" "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkCachedStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline.obj" < -- lots of more files listed -- > "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkFilteringInstantiator.obj" Fatal: Command arguments too long I estimated the command line to be about 10.5 kbytes in size... Every single file starts with a common dir name "CMakeFiles" so getting rid of that would help. But the best way to handle such long argument sizes being just long lists of files would be for CMake to supply these as follows: tlib /p512 /a "..\bin\vtkFiltering.lib" @filelist.txt Here the filelist.txt file contains the list of files that would otherwise appear on the tlib command line. They can then be read by tlib from the file and everything is much shorter on the command line. And the long list of files in the filelist.txt can be broken down in several lines of file names by using a continuation character & at the end of the lines. So what I would like to know is how one can configure CMake to do this when creating the build system? (I assume it is possible...) -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
