topic Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program" in Kinetis Design Studio

Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

mike1974 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:18:11 GMT

Building my project using KDS 2.0.0... when it gets to linker stage...

'Building target: M2.elf'

'Invoking: Cross ARM C++ Linker'

arm-none-eabi-g++ -mcpu=cortex-m4 -mthumb -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16 -O0 -fmessage-length=0 -fsigned-char -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -g3 -T "C:/M2/Project_Settings/Linker_Files/ProcessorExpert.ld" -Xlinker --gc-sections -L"C:/M2/Project_Settings/Linker_Files" -Wl,-Map,"M2.map" -nanolibc -o "M2.elf" ... ...

The system cannot execute the specified program.

make: *** [M2.elf] Error 1

Anyone seen this before, or know if there is a log somewhere which shows more details?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

Alice_Yang — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:31:19 GMT

Hi Michael,

Where does your project placed in ? directly under the C or a workspace ?

And can your send your project ? I will check it on my side .

Have a great day,
Alice

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Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

BlackNight — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 06:36:17 GMT

Hi Mike,

is that the complete command line from the console log, or something missing (...)? Could it be that your command line length exceeds 8192 characters?

Erich

Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

mike1974 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:23:38 GMT

Hi Erich,

The complete command line is huge, there are a lot of .o files. So yes, it certainly exceeds 8192 characters. I was not aware of this limitation. So if this is indeed the problem, the question is, how to get around it?

Thank you,

Mike

Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

mike1974 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:36:42 GMT

Hi Alice,

The project is called "M2" and the project folder is located in C:\M2. It is part of a workspace called "kds_workspace". The folder for this workspace is located at C:\kds_workspace.

I'm not sure how I ended up with the project folder outside of the workspace folder, but I don't know if that matters.

Yes I will send it to you, how would you like me to do that?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

BlackNight — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:12:02 GMT

Hi Mike,

yes, that limiation is a general Windows limitation, and documented in the release notes.

One workaround is to keep the path to the files/object files as short as possible.

Or to build some parts of the application as library (archive) and link with it.

The latest GNU ARM Eclipse plugins mention that there is a solution to that problem with using its own command interface, but I have not verified that one yet.

Erich

Re: Linker won't run: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

mike1974 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:51:30 GMT

Thank you Erich, I believe another workaround is here:

Re: KSDK Linker Error - Command line too long

I'm going to try it.

Also I cannot do a "make clean" for the same reason I suppose (it says "filename or extension is too long.")

--Mike