[fpc-devel] FPDoc improvements

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 29/11/2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> A "make -n rtl.chk > test.txt" succeeded, at least. Now I suspect some
>> Windows or RTL commandline limitations, which seem to truncate the long
>> command lines created by the scripts (4890 chars for rtl.chk).
>
>
> Does this limitation apply when using TProcess under Windows as well?
> Truncating a command line.

Yes.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Specifies a limit of 32 Kb.

Linux has a limit of 5000 arguments (or thereabouts).


> If not, why not remove the Makefile idea completely, and simply create
> a console application that calls the appropriate applications with the
> correct parameters. I have removed all make files and scripts from
> some of our projects (and for the generation of fpGUI or LCL docs into
> INF or HTML), and replaced them with simple command line programs that
> can be compiled from:  fpc somecoolutitility.pas
>
> You then have TProcess, the whole RTL and FCL at your disposal. MUCH
> more powerful than scripts or makefiles.

Exactly the ideas behind the switch to fpmake and fppkg.

Michael.