[Insight-users] why 50 characters?

[Bill Lorensen]

Visual Studio has path length issues. The 50 character limit is a
guess. If you have more than 50 characters, you may run into trouble
when you build ITK. You can try increasing it, but I expect you will
have problems with your build.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Yanling Liu <vrnova at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, line 11 of the CMakeList.txt file in ITK 4 source tree:
>
> if (win32)
> ...
>
> But I am compiling for w64 instead of w32.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Line 11 of what?
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Yanling Liu <vrnova at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am wondering why the CMakeList.txt restricts maximumly 50 characters
>> > in
>> > both source path and build path in windows (line 11). Looks like these
>> > limitation is for win32 but even if I compile ITK using 64bit compiler I
>> > still get the same error message. What's going to happen if I change
>> > them to
>> > 150?
>> >
>> > Windows 7 + Visual C++ 2010 Express + Windows SDK 7.1 (for 64bit) +
>> > CMake
>> > 2.8.6 with configuration for Visual Studio 10 W64.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yanling
>> >
>> >
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