#41 Problem compiling wx widgets 2.9.0

[Anonymous]

First of all my system is windows xp sp3 32 bit running on a Pentium 4, Prescott with 4GB RAM. I tried to compile wx widgets 2.9.0 and I run on some issues. First of all I had to make a copy of i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe to windres.exe. the same for ar and set the compilers.

Ooops First : windress is expecting gcc.exe and not i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
Oops Second : I used the mingw make from mingw project.

Oops third in the linking phase, after consuming 2.5GB of memory

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c:/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bi
n/ld.exe: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100618 internal error, aborting at ../../
../../build/binutils/src/bfd/coffcode.h line 1817 in coff_set_alignment_hook

c:/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bi
n/ld.exe: Please report this bug.

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make: *** [..\..\lib\gcc_dll\wxmsw290u_gcc_custom.dll] Error 1

C:\winpackages\opensource\Developer\MINGW\source_paks\wxWidgets-2.9.0\build\msw>"

I used mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20100618.zip
and
wxMSW-2.9.0-Setup.exe

Vasileios Anagnostopoulos

[FITHIS]

Just a small update :
I used in build\msw

Step 1
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release

Step 2
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release

[Ozkan Sezer]

Since you are using mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20100618, and I do assume binutils in that package is from the CVS, I looked at coffcode.h r1.165 (May 11 2010) at the cvs, its line 1817 is:
1814 section->used_by_bfd = bfd_zalloc (abfd, amt);
1815 if (section->used_by_bfd == NULL)
1816 /* FIXME: Return error. */
1817 abort ();

... and abort is defined as _bfd_abort in libbfd.h who output that message.

In short, bfd_zalloc() seems to failed allocating memory. IIRC (I may be wrong here), g++-4.5 is memory hungry, creating extra large object files, which may be the reason that you ran out of memory, but others here may have more to say on the matter.

[FITHIS]

I also believe that it is an out of memeory error hidden somewhere. But 2.5GB for linking are way too much. I tried with
mingw-w32-bin-i686-20100605.7z from http://code.google.com/p/mingw-w64-dgn/ and the compiler crashed. (Segmentation fault).

[Anonymous]

If I may provide my experiences with this:
There is also an out of memory error when building QtGuid4.dll with GCC 4.5+ with ld.exe. I worked around this by temporarily replacing the ld.exe (don't know if it's in /bin or somewhere deeper) by a 64-bit version. I do not know if this is relevant, but it let me continue compilation of QtGui4d.dll. The crash seemed to occur at the 2GB memory limit for 32-bit programs in Windows.
I understand a x64 ld.exe might not be an option, and this problem should be solved and not worked around. I at least suggest to ensure ld.exe (or all of GCC+binutils) is compiled with --large-address-aware as an ld option, so that the limit is boosted a bit, and at least the 32-bit ld.exe won't error out of memory on x64 windows. Just my 2 cents. There's also a discussion here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel/3728 pertaining to wxwidgets+GCC 4.5

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I compiled without MONOLITHIC=1 and now after using 1.45GB at the linking phase it works with the steup I DESCRIBED. But I wouldn't try it on my laptop yet, it has only 768MB. I am still investigating. Thanks "rubenvb" for the link you provided. Is the issue closed? You decide.