[Xastir] Cygwin and dbfawk

[N7YGE]

Thanks Curt.  As you stated - TIME FOR THAT LINUX BOX!  But his is just a
neat puzzle to try to solve is all.  We were at this point a week or two ago
but I had that other problem of the libICE.dll message which is at least
solved; we put that light out.  I will take it from here.

Thanks for all the understanding to assure me that all is well and it is the
machine limitations at this point.  I will try some of the things you
mentioned.

Jerry.



-----Original Message-----
From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:14 AM
To: N7YGE
Cc: 'Matt Werner'; xastir at xastir.org
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Cygwin and dbfawk


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, N7YGE wrote:

> gcc  -g -O2 -pipe -Wall -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
> -L/ImageMagick-5.5.3/lib 
> -L/home/Administrator/ImageMagick-5.5.3/ttf/objs
> -L/home/Administrator/ImageMagick-5.5.3/ttf/objs/.libs
> -L/home/Administrator/ImageMagick-5.5.3/xml
> -L/home/Administrator/ImageMagick-5.5.3/xml/.libs -L/usr/lib -o xastir.exe
> alert.o awk.o bulletin_gui.o color.o datum.o db.o dbfawk.o draw_symbols.o
> fcc_data.o festival.o geo-find.o geocoder_gui.o gps.o hashtable.o
> hashtable_itr.o hostname.o igate.o interface.o interface_gui.o io-common.o
> io-mmap.o lang.o list_gui.o locate_gui.o location.o location_gui.o main.o
> maps.o map_cache.o map_dos.o map_geo.o map_gdal.o map_gnis.o map_pdb.o
> map_shp.o map_tif.o map_tiger.o messages.o messages_gui.o popup_gui.o
> rac_data.o rotated.o snprintf.o sound.o track_gui.o util.o
> view_message_gui.o wx.o wx_gui.o xa_config.o x_spider.o  -lXm -lXt -lX11
> -lMagick -lfreetype -lbz2 -lz -lgdi32 -lpthread -lm -ldb-4.2 -lintl -lcurl
> -lXm -lXt -lXp -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lshp -lpcre -lproj -ltiff
-lgeotiff
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Everything looks great all the way to the final link stage.  That's the
stage that on Windows/Cygwin takes inordinate amounts of memory and CPU.
I'd make sure you've got enough swap and just let it run.

Of course, I've seen a Win2k system that had 128k of memory and couldn't
complete this step.  We had to add memory to the machine before it could
complete.

I have no idea why the link stage on Cygwin uses so much memory, but it
does.  You might add in a bunch of "--without-XX" lines at the configure
stage to knock out some libraries.  That will reduce the memory needed at
the link stage.


> I will now go back and reload all the side packages that are 
> specifically named and to be downloaded from specific download sites 
> as specified in the ReadmeWin32 file.

I doubt that will help.  What might help is to remove/disable as many
running programs as you can and try it again.  Watch your memory at that
last stage.  If it goes up/down/up/down in a slow cycle, it probably needs
more free memory in order to complete.

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