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| author | simonpj <unknown> | 2005-01-06 15:05:45 +0000 |
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| committer | simonpj <unknown> | 2005-01-06 15:05:45 +0000 |
| commit | c61816ee7a22c49d249c6fc150cb3c15834679ea (patch) | |
| tree | f2dfea4ec80481f0f901db8bf895ba3adbbd2728 /docs | |
| parent | 104c6fb889711759d093dc3861d0195c5374d902 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-c61816ee7a22c49d249c6fc150cb3c15834679ea.tar.gz | |
[project @ 2005-01-06 15:05:45 by simonpj]
Mention problem with ld on Windows
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diff --git a/docs/building/building.xml b/docs/building/building.xml index 2a61ab8c0e..d8683c6ee8 100644 --- a/docs/building/building.xml +++ b/docs/building/building.xml @@ -4317,6 +4317,24 @@ Cygwin programs have a more complicated mount table, and map the lettered drives </para> </sect3> +<sect3><title>Crippled <command>ld</command></title> + +<para> +It turns out that on both Cygwin and MSYS, the <command>ld</command> has a +limit of 32kbytes on its command line. Especially when using split object +files, the make system can emit calls to <command>ld</command> with thousands +of files on it. Then you may see something like this: +<programlisting> +(cd Graphics/Rendering/OpenGL/GL/QueryUtils_split && /mingw/bin/ld -r -x -o ../QueryUtils.o *.o) +/bin/sh: /mingw/bin/ld: Invalid argument +</programlisting> +The solution is either to switch off object file splitting (set +<option>SplitObjs</option> to <literal>NO</literal> in your +<filename>build.mk</filename>), +or to make the module smaller. +</para> +</sect3> + <sect3><title>Host System vs Target System</title> <para> |