[lazarus] Cycling compiler on win32

[Peter Vreman]

At 00:01 14-12-99 , you wrote:
> > At 08:20 13-12-99 , you wrote:
> > >Since abaout a week, I get the following error when cycling the compiler
>on
> > >my win98 computer
> > >
> > >asw -o wprt0.ow wprt0.as
> > >asw -o wdllprt0.ow wdllprt0.as
> > >ppc386.exe !FPCEXTCMD -Us -Sg syswin32.pp
> > >syswin32.pp(25,2) Fatal: Can't open include file systemh.inc
> >
> >
> > Try compiling with 'make OPT=-vt'
>I did just that and the result is the same as above.
>
> > >I am wondering what the !FPCEXTCMD is doing in the command line. Is
> > >FPCEXTCMD an environment variable which needs to be set?
> >
> > It's a variable set internaly in the Makefile to overcome the 128 byte
> > commandline limit.
>
>I think the above problem is caused by the fact that ppc386.exe 0.99.12b,
>which I use to start the make cycle, does not recognize the !FPCEXTCMD
>option on the command-line.
>I downloaded the last snapshot and used that to cycle the compiler and
>worked.
>
>Can you confirm my suspicion that 0.99.12b is not good enough anymore to
>cycle the compiler?

I can remove the usage of the envvar for 0.99.12b, but then there is the 
128 byte cmdline limit.

>Is there a workaround or do I have to download a snapshot and just take my
>chances that is not too buggy (as could happen with snapshots) to cycle a
>new compiler?
Use the go32v2 compiler, which doesn't have the commandline limit.


Peter