I am using python pip install, which calls setup.py, and uses distutils, to compile and link C/C++ sources. The code calls Microsoft Visual Studio C (msvc) cl.exe to compile the sources, and that works fine, but when it calls link.exe, it fails with “No such file or directory”. I ran a “dir” and fou…

Thanks again for the help. This problem has now been resolved. I can see that there are many ways to avoid the link.exe command that exceeds 32k in length, but some of them would require changing components that we don’t normally change. In our case, the problem involved libSBML. Here is how we sol…

Hello tanzislam, thanks for replying and pointing me to Nmake! I will definitely take a look at it. However, since the project already uses python, pip, and distutils, it looks like a big change. On the other hand, I discovered something today that we need to take care of. The many calls to cl.exe …

No, I meant that you need to load vcvarsall.bat in a cmd.exe instance (to prepare the necessary environment variables), followed by calling link.exe (or any other utility from the MSVC Build Tools). I pointed to that answer as an example of how to use vcvarsall.bat, not about how to use nmake. But …

This is a problem with Python’s distutils then. It should use an auxiliary file to pass arguments to MSVC if the resulting line is too long as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30805590/the-command-line-is-too-long-when-linking-obj-files-in-windows-command-prompt .

Msvc link.exe not found

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tanzislam November 20, 2019, 7:11pm 2

You prob need to load vcvarsall.bat as shown in NMake support from Windows

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Msvc link.exe not found

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