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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Yaron,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am using the 32 bit MinGW tools, so that may be the problem. I would have hoped for an “out of memory” error from the linker rather than an access violation, but I know many programmers assume there will never be a memory problem on today’s machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I will have to try the 64 bit version Mikael linked to, to see if the 32 bit linker is actually running out of memory address space.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks to you and Mikael for the tips. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dennis Cote<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Yaron Keren [mailto:yaron.keren@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> October 10, 2013 6:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> Mikael Lepistö<br><b>Cc:</b> Dennis Cote; cfe-dev@cs.uiuc.edu Developers<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cfe-dev] building LLVM/Clang on Windows 7 x64 using MinGW/MSYS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3GB is too close for comfort for the 32 bit linker.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>G M reports success with the 64 bit toolchain so maybe it's actually required with current versions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are you using the 32-bit toolchain or 64-bit toolchain of mingw-builds?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yaron<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2013/10/10 Mikael Lepistö <<a href="mailto:mikael.lepisto@vincit.fi" target="_blank">mikael.lepisto@vincit.fi</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I also had some problems with building llvm+clang on MinGW 4.8.1 + MSYS. Another thing was that linker did require ~3GB memory to complete on x64.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here in the readme I have listed steps and linked versions of MinGW and MSYS to use for being able to compile llvm + clang on Windows 7.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/webcl-validator#building-with-windows-mingw--msys" target="_blank">https://github.com/KhronosGroup/webcl-validator#building-with-windows-mingw--msys</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards, Mikael Lepistö<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Yaron Keren <<a href="mailto:yaron.keren@gmail.com" target="_blank">yaron.keren@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'd try switching MingW distribution as it's very easy to do.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you're now using <a href="http://www.mingw.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mingw.org/</a> try <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/</a> and vice verse. These are different distributions with different patches and different binaries. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For instance ld.exe in the former is 9MB and in the later 944K.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>Yaron<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>cfe-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cfe-dev@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">cfe-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br><a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>