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Q: I get errors I can't figure out when I try to compile something.
One cause of such problems might be that your system is set up inefficiently. If GCC doesn't get enough free RAM, it will run very slowly, and you might think it crashed when in fact it didn't.
(This kind of problem usually happens on memory-starved machines.) Invoking go32-v2
with no arguments will report the amount of memory available to DJGPP programs; large programs might
require up to 20MBytes to compile, sometimes more. If you run from the DOS box on Windows 9X, set its DPMI memory property to 65535KB (64MB) and try again. Check out the system
configuration advice, earlier in this FAQ list, for other suggestions about your system configuration.
Sometimes, if the TMPDIR
environment variable points to a full disk, GCC may hang or crash as well. Make sure you have enough free disk space where TMPDIR
points.
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