RE: Re: Out of memory issues

[adrian.gaunt]

> Thanks for the reply, Roger.
> 
> I'm not sure about being able to post the Make file build solution being 
> implemented  - I need to check this.
> 
> As for the tool chain, well, this will use all tools supplied with a Symbian 
> release - plus others. Yep, you've probably guessed it - I'm running builds 
> for building Symbian software. Symbian provide their own build system, which 
> has been superseded in-house with a new, more comprehensive, implementation. 
> The tools supplied with Symbian releases use many GNU tools during the build 
> - the GCC compiler, C pre-processor, LD and many others. Also, make will use 
> tools supplied with Microsoft Visual C++ to build targets for the Windows 
> platform. 
> 
> I will attach the logs of the build when I've had conformation from my 
> company that this is ok! Sorry. 
> 
> The new build system does not adopt the recursive make architecture - using 
> include statements to build the Makefile system instead. Each project has its 
> own makefile, which is included when necessary. The build work area has 
> around 200,000 files. There are many project groups within the Symbian work 
> area and a large project can consist of many source files. Clearly, the 
> dependency list for this size of work area is going to be pretty huge. 
> 
> The shell being used = DOS shell - cmd.exe. I'm sure this has many 
> limitations, but not so sure how this may effect things in this instance. 
> However, Perl is also used to implement many commands - version 5.6.1. Perl 
> uses the same DOS shell to fire off system commands - when needed.
> 
> Make version = 3.79.1 (Symbian build version 004) . Not sure what changes are 
> made to Make with regard to the Symbian build versions and therefore, 
> couldn't comment on what Libraries were used to build against.
> 
> I realise that this is very difficult to make an assessment without actually 
> seeing the Make files themselves and or the logs for the builds, but I'm 
> assuming there are well known problems with Make running on the Windows 
> platform! I will make every attempt to supply the files you requested, but in 
> the absence of these, can you hazard a guess on where the probable cause may 
> lie, based on the info supplied thus far?   
> 
> Thanks for the support. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adrian