Help with linker problem

[Walter Bright]

Frank Benoit wrote:
> Walter Bright schrieb:
>> Frank Benoit wrote:
>>> i was not sure about these "noi/deb". Are they correct?
>> noi means case sensitive, yes, it's needed.
>> I'd use /co rather than /deb.
>>
>> Do you have only 1.5Gb of free disk space?
>>
>> Optlink tries to do everything in memory. It is entirely possible that
>> all this stuff simply exceeds memory. You can try excluding debug info
>> for some of the modules/libraries.
> 
> 
> I deleted some file, and have 3.5 GB free. But if the exe grows bigger
> then 1 GB, i do a Ctrl-C.

I (personally) find these days that having less than 10Gb free is 
unusable. My laptop doesn't have much space on it, but I use a plug-in 
external 160Gb USB drive.

> The notebook has 1.5 GB Ram.
> 
> I recompiled all libs without -g -debug and my minimumhelloworld builds
> fine with -g -debug. 13MB
> Same procedure again with the poseidon, about 3.8MB obj files and the
> same libs (hm, tangobos was not used in the mini-hw example). Does not
> stop linking, growing exe.

Using linker switches like /nodebug, you can control the inclusion of 
debug info on a per-file basis.