Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!prisma!karel From: karel@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Karel Zuiderveld) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Run QuickC QCL in window Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 12:19:38 GMT References: <26DB801F.14356@orion.oac.uci.edu> Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision The Netherlands Lines: 29 In <26DB801F.14356@orion.oac.uci.edu> eabg020@orion.oac.uci.edu (Donald Doherty) writes: >I have been attempting to compile the simple sample code >in the SDK using NMAKE or QCL alone in a DOS window (386 >extended mode) and continue to get various memory errors >during compilation (most popular - out of far heap mem.). > The following may help: 1) Use NMK instead of NMAKE (uses less memory) 2) Disable parts of the file by making appropriate defines (#define NOCOMM, #define NOKANJI etc., see ) 3) Check available memory in MS-DOS. Maybe using other DOS versions or shells (DRDOS5, 4DOS) may give you more memory. 4) Use the CL compiler instead . I'm compiling pretty large Windows programs in DOS Windows without any problems; especially tip #2 surely did helps... Karel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karel Zuiderveld E-mail: karel@cv.ruu.nl 3D Computer Vision - Room E.02.222 Tel: (31-30) 506682/507772 Academisch Ziekenhuis Utrecht Fax: (31-30) 513399 Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands ---------------- If Murphy's law can go wrong, it will ------------------