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| -Linker shim that enables the use of "Use Library Dependency Inputs" on
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| -large exe/dlls via Visual Studio.
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| -That flag is required to enable useful incremental linking, however, with a
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| -large number of objects in components, the linker fails with:
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| -...RSP00002E45885644.rsp : fatal error LNK1170: line in command file contains 131071 or more characters
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| -This seems to be that the IDE team didn't talk to the linker team; the
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| -response file can handle long commands, just all the files can't be on
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| -*one* line which is what the IDE generates.
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| -So, this program simply replaces link.exe, fixes the response file, and
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| -then shells to the original linker. Ridiculous? Yes. Faster links? Yes.
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| -Compile/install with install_supalink.py. Run from cmd.exe as Administrator,
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| -and make sure to run vsvars32.bat first.
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