From: Timothy W. G. <tim...@si...> - 2013-10-11 16:44:03
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I've downloaded and installed MinGW and MYSYS (mingw-get version 0.6.2 beta-201310004-1) primarily to install SIP. I've downloaded the source for sip-4.15.2 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download) and have been trying to install in on Windows 7. I followed the instructions found at http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/sip4/installation.html (mingw32-g++) and ran the following in the Windows cmd terminal. c:\python33\python configure.py --platform win32-g++ C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe 'Configure' worked fine and 'make' started out okay but eventually failed. I tried the same from within a MSYS terminal (mintty.exe) with the same results but this time my system complained about running out of memory. I ran the commands again but with a memory monitor running and saw memory usage creep up slowly until it ran out completely and then failure came again. I've got 3Mb of RAM installed and on my 32-bit Windows system this is all it can use. Does installing sip really require this much memory, or does this point to a 'leak' somewhere? Any advice welcome. Best regards, Tim Grove |