Re: [Mingw-users] Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

["Theodore H. Smith" <delete@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16 Apr 2008, at 14:55, JonY wrote:

> Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>> On 16 Apr 2008, at 13:59, JonY wrote:
>>
>>> Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>>>> On 16 Apr 2008, at 13:44, Tuomo Latto wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well I have no idea what a memtest is or where I'd get it. Or why  
>>>> I'd
>>>> need it.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying you think my RAM is damaged?
>>>>
>>>> I think It's more likely those scripts need fixing and the  
>>>> installer
>>>> needs msys added to it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Why would you say that?
>>
>> Because it failed?
> Hi,
> sorry, I meant to say why would you say the script needs fixing?

Because it failed.

>> Also because msys is not selectable as part of the "simple mingw
>> install". Which doesn't make sense to me.
>>
> IMHO, MSYS is considered a seperate entity, although usually used to
> support MinGW.

Well how am I meant to compile my C++ code without msys? Is there a  
better easier way? It's like saying a bicycle seat and a bicycle are  
considered separate entities... I'd rather get a bicycle with a  
seat... Instead of having to waste days arguing with people to try to  
get them to fix the seat to the bicycle so I can ride it.

> That's a good thing. Until awhile ago, MSYS can't differentiate  
> between
> MSYS and native win32 apps. make.exe is different from mingw32- 
> make.exe,
> the former is designed to be used under MSYS while the latter is  
> used as
> a native makefile processor.
>
> Congrats, MinGW and MSYS is now installed.

OK great. Except that machine I installed it on, was a friends, not my  
own.

So either I need to buy Windows Vista, and install it on my PC at  
home... or find some fix to this bug. So I'm still not in much luck yet.

>> I've noticed the "easy installer" has problems. That often it would  
>> be
>> unable to download files, until I retried a few times. So perhaps it
>> missed downloading "make" despite that I selected it.
>
> Personally, I'm would avoid all forms of .exe installers, they look  
> like
> opaque blobs, but that's just me.

That's the whole point, that they "look like opaque blobs". I don't  
want to go around picking individual files off of sourceforge and  
manually inspecting them. I just want an install with all I need to  
compile C++ source code using a makefile.

Well... I'm still stuck. This is no good.

If anyone from the mingw team has Parallels (a PC emulator), I can  
give you my parallels "virtual computer", that I'm having the trouble  
on.

I think that would be a good idea as it would enable you to fix the  
bug. And make a release that does not anymore be unable to install  
msys on normal PCs.



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