[swift-users] memory requirements for building swift on linux?

[Kevin Lundberg]

This appears to have helped me. I’m on to testing the build, it appears my linker woes are behind me. Thanks!

- Kevin

> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> For those hitting this issue, you might try building without debug info to see if that helps (build-script -R).
> 
>  - Daniel
> 
>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Kevin Lundberg via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> I was able to build it on my 8GB macbook successfully, but there may be platform differences there that caused that.
>> 
>> It seems that 4GB isn't enough either, fails when linking clang-3.8. I'll have to figure something else out for linux for me. Thanks!
>> 
>> On 12/14/2015 9:30 AM, Tobias Scholze wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> to build Swift from the sources I used a 16 GB bare metal machine and it was not enough.
>>> So I think, you need a lot of memory ( > 16 GB) to have fun while building it.
>>> 
>>> - Toby
>>> 
>>> Kevin Lundberg via swift-users < <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> schrieb am Mo., 14. Dez. 2015 um 15:03 Uhr:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I've set up a linux VM (ubuntu 15.10) in virtualbox on my windows PC to
>>> build and test swift on linux, but I've been unable to successfully
>>> build it to completion. I have all the repos including the corelibs
>>> cloned locally, and have followed all the steps as far as I know for
>>> installing dependencies. Every time I build, it fails somewhere during
>>> linking, the last time failing when  linking "CXX shared library
>>> lib/libLTO.so".
>>> 
>>> I don't have the full error, but I'm curious if there's some RAM
>>> requirement for building swift. My VM had 2GB, and I just bumped it up
>>> to 4GB to try again. Has anyone else run into this, and is there a
>>> recommended minimum needed to successfully build swift with? Could
>>> something else be the cause here instead of RAM if 2GB is in fact enough?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> -Kevin
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