[Mingw-users] MSYS intall error (postinstall pi.sh)

[Paul R. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi,
Today I downloaded MinGW-5.1.4.exe and MSYS-1.0.10.exe.  The first
installed without any problems, but the 2nd one gave me an error at
the end of installation:

C:\msys\1.0\postinstall>..\bin\sh.exe pi.sh
AllocationBase 0x71420000, BaseAddress 0x715B0000, RegionSize 0x83000,
State 0x1000
C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap,
Win32 error 0

(I hope I transcribed that correctly, as when it happened I foolishly
just took a screenshot instead of just copy/pasting the text.)

If I now try to run MSYS from the desktop icon, then I get many tens
of rxvt windows appearing.  They repeatedly spawn each other, until
eventually something fails and they all exit.


I am using 64-bit Vista Home Premium.  I kept the default install
options (including install locations) for both the MinGW and MSYS
installs.  I also do not have cygwin installed (nor have I ever on
this machine).

-- 
Paul Richards