[Xastir] Finally 100% Installed on Windows Xastir

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, N7YGE wrote:

> I just want to thank the group for all the help on helping me get through
> the update Windows Xastir on my Notebook with 256 Megs of RAM.  It appears
> you need more than 256 Megs of RAM so it does not take 5 plus hours to run a
> update/make. I was not hanging in there long enough to get past the id.exe
> file working at a RAM usage rate between 150 to 200 megs.  My machine ran
> sloooooow.  Once I got through the update, things got better for running
> configure and make for individual packages.

It depends greatly on the version of Windows you're running, what
you have already in Windows that is using up memory, and how many
libraries you're compiling into Xastir.

On one machine that was running NT4 with 128MB RAM, I could do the
Cygwin/Xastir thing no problem.  Once that exact machine went to
Win2k, I couldn't anymore.  I think it had something like 120MB RAM
used by the OS and the virus scanning software, without running any
programs at all!

The newer Windows OS'es seem to use a lot of memory.

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