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

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Greg Chicares <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.
>

And I didn't change all the strings.

>> 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.)
>

Actually, you're warned not to have a PATH to cygwin in the  
documentation provided at /doc/msys/.

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

I thought XP used some kind of algorithm of existing contiguous free  
disk space to determine the swap.  You might want to check your disk  
fragmentation as well.

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Earnie