Re: nam on Win95

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Sun, 17 May 1998 13:50:11 PDT, Ahmed A-G Helmy wrote: 
>Greetings,
>
>	It seems I am doing something wrong trying to compile nam on Win95!
>
>	I am getting the following error message (many times with a different
>	line number):
>
>	gen/nam_tcl.cc(80) : error C2026: string too big, trailing 
>characters truncatd
>
>I looked for this error in VC++ IDE's help and found the following on 
>error C2026:
>
>"The string was longer than the limit of 2048 characters.
>
>After adjacent strings are concatenated, a string cannot be longer than 
>2048 characters."
>
>How do I get around this problem... ?! I know that some people were 
>successful in producing a .exe file for nam (I have that bin and it is 
>working, however, it is not the latest version)... I wonnder what's the 
>workaround.. !

You need the build-time switch in tcl2c++ to build the code as
multiple strings rather than one big one.

   -John Heidemann