Thanks all you guys for your help. Gerrit has solved the problem -thanks a lot Gerrit- and the program runs in my pc
I'm afraid the error prompt was a bit misleading but I don't understand yet why it was raised. Elkin "E G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I have the latest Cygwin/cygnome environment (Cygwin 1.5.5.1 dll) installed > two weeks ago for compiling a working program already tested in linux and > solaris. The program uses the X libraries Xt, Xpm, Xaw and X11 in an > interface window written in C and runs a program written in Fortran. > > I compiled the interface program written in C (xgraph.c) using gcc -x -o > xgraph.o xgraph.c -I/usr/X11R6/include and it created the object file > without problems. > > I then compiled the fortran code and linked the libraries and required > object files -including the C program- as I did in Linux (I just changed the > paths for the includes and the libraries) and the names of the libraries > -lXpm -> -lXpm.dll, -lX11 ->-lX11.dll). It compiled fine and I got my object > dependencies ok and the exe file without problems. But, when I tried to run > the program I got a "Program too big to fit in memory" error message and it > didn't run. The program is 1.4 MB and my computer has 256 MB RAM and 9 GB > hard disk free space (defragmented, i.e., single chunk). > > I run the max_memory program included in Chapter 3 of the users manual I > think, and it reports 1560 kB. So I'm discarding real memory problems. > > > I have tried: > 1. increasing Cygwin memory restriction using regtool for > memory_chunk_in_mb to set 2048 kB. Nope. > 2. compiling the code with -fconserve-space, -fno-inline, -Wl... heap and > stack.... They Reduce the exe file size a bit, but still didn't work. > Program too big to fit in memory. > 3. stripping the exe file using strip -s <exe_file>. Reduces the size of the > executable by 1/3 but still getting the same error message. > > I run out of options, so I hope someone can give a hint what to do to make > my program run. > > Thanks, > > Elkin > 4rd Yr Aerospace Eng student @ Ryerson.ca > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
