id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1276,Parrot does't build on Win32 with MSVC,whiteknight,,"The build fails on win32 with msvc (cl version 15.0) with the following error:
{{{
NMAKE : fatal error U1095: expanded command line 'ar -out:blib\lib\parrot ...' Too long
}}}

The command is pretty long since it includes all the .obj files from src/* and subdirectories. However, there's a bigger problem too: msvc doesn't have an ""ar.exe"" program to run. That appears to be a GNU-only utility.

So this ticket has two parts:
 - How can we shrink the size of that commandline?
 - What is the equivalent program for ar.exe in microsoft land?",bug,closed,blocker,1.8,build,1.7.0,release,invalid,msvc,,,,win32