Out of memory during compilation

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 15:13:58 UTC, Matt Gamble wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 14:30:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I believe I'm using the vs linker (link.exe). This is what is 
> automatically set for VisualD under x64 mode. I tried the -v 
> flag and got compiler output messages that are 13,758 lines 
> long. The "Fatal Error: Out of memory" happens at line 13,639. 
> How do I use this information?

The idea was to check the log output and see where it's failing, 
while compiling or linking. It sounds like you're saying while 
compiling? If so, are you compiling all your D files at once? You 
can either try separate compilation or a 64-bit compiler, as 
Rikki suggests.