Re: [Mingw-users] unable to allocate heap while building clang with mingw, msys on windows 7

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 04/07/14 07:11, Sourav Mukherjee wrote:
> I'm trying to build clang as instructed over here
> http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/10/building-and-running-clang-static.html

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see that page suggesting ...

> sh --verbose configure --disable-docs --enable-optimized
> --enable-targets=x86,x86_64 --prefix=/mingw

... this particular invocation of the configure command.

> I get this error:-
> C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: * 1. unable to allocate heap 0x10060000,
> heap_ch unk_size 268435456, pid 7788, Win32 error 0 0 [main] sh 5548
> sync_with_child: child 7788(0x2D8) died before initializa tion with
> status code 0x1 555 [main] sh 5548 sync_with_child: * child state
> waiting for longjmp ../llvm/configure: fork: Resource temporarily
> unavailable

IIRC, this may be symptomatic of attempting to run a sh.exe command
directly from cmd.exe, without proper initialization by msys.bat, (I
believe this may be particularly problematic on 64-bit Windows).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.