[Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Release Candidate 1 Posted

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 22:24 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> Not sure if win32/cygwin has the same problem, as I don't have cygwin
> installed, but I suspect it does.

cygwin on winxp seems to work fine. Don't ask me why.

> 
> Googling the problem gave me this link:
> http://lkamal.blogspot.com/2006/12/input-line-is-too-long-windows-command.html
> 
> Which says "The number of characters that can be entered into a single
> command is limited to 8191. (this is including spaces)."

gcc 4.2 and up support the @file syntax (read from 'file' the
command-line arguments). I believe that this patch was used with djgpp
for a long time. Maybe the mingw people also supported it.

Mathieu