Q47503: LINK Environment Variable Ignored When Linking Through CL

Article: Q47503
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10 | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | S_C S_QuickC | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 15-AUG-1989

Problem:

To increase the size of my stack, when I set an environment variable
called LINK equal to /ST:4096, it doesn't work correctly when I link
using CL.

Response:

Before CL spawns the linker, it clears the environment of all
variables except LIB. Consequently, the LINK environment variable
doesn't exist when the linker is invoked, and any options that were
specified by it are not seen. When linking with CL, any desired linker
options should be specified on the CL command line after the /link
switch.

The same behavior is seen with the command line compilers from QuickC
Version 1.00 and 1.01, but not with QuickC 2.00 or QuickAssembler.