[CMake] CMake, Visual studio 2005 and long relative path

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 10.01.09 16:20:43, Armin Berres wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 09 14:56, Julien Michel wrote:
> > Dear CMake users and developpers,
> >
> > My project is using cmake and I am trying to build it on Visual Studio  
> > 2005. The configuration process is successful, but when trying to  
> > compile, I have a long bunch of fatal C1083 error :
> >
> > fatal error C1083: impossible to open source file:  
> > '../../../../../../../../../../Path-to-the-source-file' no such file or  
> > directory.
> >
> > But when manually testing, the file is where visual is looking for it.
> >
> > After some more testing, it appears that windows does not recognize  
> > files if there are too many '../' in the path (even if the total path  
> > length does not exceed 150 characters).
> >
> > Is this a known limitation of visual, or due to a cmake recent update ?  
> > I did not meet this problem before, and my project did not change that  
> > much ...
> >
> > Any clue of what is going wrong ?
> 
> See <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx>. The max
> length of a path in windows is 260 characters.

Thats wrong, the maximum length of a pathname component is 255 characters
(that is the part between two \). The maximum length for a path is much
more (yet still less than on unix, IIRC). 

Andreas

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