QT 3/Windows Free Edition: MinGW cross compiler

[Peter Kümmel]

Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:56:29PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 
>>>Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>has anyone tried the newest mingw binutils release on 
>>>>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82723&release_id=177460 
>>>>Regards
>>>>Ralf
>>>>
>>>
>>>I've no problems with
>>>binutils-2.15.94-20050118-1.tar.gz
>>>
>>
>>And what about linking speed ?
> 
> 
> I gave up after 4 hours of linking (dynamically). With static linking
> the whole thing took 1 hour including compiling.
> 
> Im not sure whether there is still something wrong with my mingw or this
> is the normal linking time (maybe due to me having only 384 MB Ram)
> 
> Simon

If it starts swaping you are lost.
I know 256MB is not enough memory, and the link process needs
here something about 370MB, so if you can start the link process
without a operating system it will work with your 384MB :).

Peter