Out of memory during compilation

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 14:25:35 UTC, Matt Gamble wrote:
> I have a large program (for me) with several thousand lines of 
> code. Recently when I've tried to compile under debug (-g 
> -unittest)  with VS2017, dmd2.076.1, windows 10, 8Gb ram), I've 
> had the following output:
>
> Compiling SKaTERoptimizerD.d...
> Fatal Error: Out of memory
> Building x64\Debug\SKaTERoptimizerD.exe failed!
>
> When compiled under release (-O -release -inline 
> -boundscheck=off) mode it works fine.
>
> Any advice on how to combat this? Do I need to start compiling 
> DLLs? Does that change how the linking would be done? Would 
> that affect the debugger?
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Matt

My guess would be Optlink, the old OMF linker. Are you using that 
or the VS linker? Try adding the -v flag to check log output for 
where it fails.