Subj : Re: linking resources
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Sun Jun 06 2004 02:03 am

There is a limitation on the size of resources that the linker will
handle.  I think the limitation appeared with ilink32 and is not
shared with tlink32 but am not sure.  The IDE driven (DLL) version of
the linker seems to have a bit more capacity but still is limited.
The linker limitation on resource size was identified and fixed for
BCB version 6.

..  Ed

> mike wrote in message
> news:40c275c2@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> does borland's linker have a limitation on how large a
> object file or resource file can be? i have a resource file
> that is about 12MB after i compile it with the resource
> compiler (it has large bitmaps in them). when i try to link
> my executable i get this error:
>
> Fatal: Access violation.  Link terminated.
> Warning: Unable to perform incremental link - performing full
link...
> Fatal: Access violation.  Link terminated.
>
> at first i thought it was my program that was bad, but i tried
> using g++ to compile it and it runs and works. i also tried
> using the free command compiler and that doesn't work either.
> my build environment is borland 5.02 compiler but i usually
> write a makefile and compile via the command line rather than
> the IDE. i don't think that should make a difference though.

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