[vtkusers] CMake generates too long commands for Win7X64 RAD Studio XE4

[Gib Bogle]

On 6/08/2013 12:29 a.m., Bo Berglund wrote:
> After fiddling with the options in CMake I got my VTK 5.0.2 build to
> proceed a lot longer, but now I hit across a roadblock where the
> generated command line is too long.....
>
> [ 24%] Building CXX object
> Filtering/CMakeFiles/vtkFiltering.dir/vtkFilteringInstantiator.obj
>          cd C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Filtering
>          C:\Programs\EMBARC~1\RADSTU~1\11.0\bin\bcc32.exe -tR
> -DVTK_IN_VTK -DWIN32
> -oCMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkFilteringInstantiator.obj -tM -O2
> -DNDEBUG -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\VolumeRendering
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Rendering
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\VolumeRendering
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Hybrid -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Widgets
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Rendering
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Rendering\Testing\Cxx
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\IO -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Imaging
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Graphics
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\GenericFiltering
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Filtering -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Common
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Common\Testing\Cxx
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\DICOMParser
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities\DICOMParser
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\vtkfreetype\include
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities\vtkfreetype\include
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\vtknetcdf
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities\vtknetcdf
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\vtkexodus2\include
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities\vtkexodus2\include
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\vtkfreetype
> -IC:\Engineering\VTK5.0.2\Utilities\ftgl\src
> -IC:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Utilities\ftgl -P -c
> C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Filtering\vtkFilteringInstantiator.cxxEmbarcadero
> C++ 6.60 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993-2013 Embarcadero Technologies,
> Inc.
> C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Filtering\vtkFilteringInstantiator.cxx:
>          cd C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2
> Linking CXX static library ..\bin\vtkFiltering.lib
>          cd C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Filtering
>          C:\Programs\CMake\bin\cmake.exe -P
> CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\cmake_clean_target.cmake
>          cd C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2
>          cd C:\Engineering\VTKBIN5.0.2\Filtering
>          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"
> "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkCardinalSpline.obj"
> "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkCastToConcrete.o
>
> ...... about 80 more lines each length 121 char ......
>
> vtkWedge.obj"  "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkViewport.obj"
> "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkGenericInterpolatedVelocit
> yField.obj"
> "CMakeFiles\vtkFiltering.dir\vtkFilteringInstantiator.obj"
> Fatal: Command arguments too long
>
> I have tried to check the command line length and it is about 10k.
>
> As far as I know there is a limit to the size of the command line in
> Windows7 of more than 30k so why did the tlib command above fail?
>
>
I wonder if it might be useful to contact the cmake community.

Gib