QT 3/Windows Free Edition: MinGW cross compiler

[Simon Rutishauser]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:16:50PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> 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 :).

Thanks. I already thought that was the reason, but I was not sure. Let
it run last night - took 8 hours according to the timer (2 for compiling
and 6 for linking).
Unfortunately my laptop doesn't work with anything > 384 MB. Looks like
static linking is the only solution.

Simon