Re: [Mingw-users] make.exe dies with cygwin heap error when cross-compiling gcc-4.1.2

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2009-04-06 17:14Z, Vasanth Asokan wrote:
> 
> C:\msys\1.0\bin\make.exe: *** couldn't commit memory for cygwin heap, Win32
> error 487
[...]
> Any ideas? Why would an MSYS binary put out a cygwin error?

MSYS is a fork of Cygwin.

> I do have cygwin
> on the machine, but it is not on the path and definitely out of the way.

If you temporarily rename /c/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll and then
reboot, does the problem persist? (Perhaps that dll is loaded
into memory by a background process.)

But first, is it possible that you're really out of memory? See:
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2002-01/msg00156.html