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