Fresh OS, fresh cygwin install, unable to resolve "couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487" error

[Bill Bierman]

Reverting to Cygwin 2.10.0 solved the problem for me.



On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:31 AM Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
>
> Bill Bierman writes:
> >> I am currently receiving this error when attempting to compile libgmp:
>
> What's wrong with the libgmp that ships with Cygwin?
>
> >>  *** fatal error in forked process - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x28B0000, top 0x2930000, reserve_size 520192, allocsize 524288, page_const 4096
>
> >> I have been researching this all day and have gotten to a point where I am no longer finding new things to try on Google, and have grown somewhat desperate.
> >>
> >> Things I have tried:
> >> 1. /usr/bin/rebase-trigger full
> >> 2. listdlls and ash /usr/bin/rebaseall -b
>
> You are supposed to run setup.exe again, otherwise the rebase-trigger is
> useless.
>
> >> 3. Checking the BLODA, found nothing
>
> BLODA is good at hiding.
>
> >> 4. Reinstalling cygwin
> >> 5. Rebooting the system
>
> > Running under WOW64 on AMD64
> >
> > Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
> >       C:\cygwin\bin
> >       C:\Python27
> >       C:\Python27\Scripts
> >       C:\WINDOWS\system32
> >       C:\WINDOWS
> >       C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
> >       C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
> >       C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
> >       C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn
> >       C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH
> >       C:\Users\bbierman\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
>
> Well, pare the PATH down to just /usr/bin (or set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH in
> the system environemnt) and try again.  You may be picking up things
> from your other installed applications (namely Git) that get in the way.
> If so, then you'll maybe find that you will need to install a few
> more packages for Cygwin before things start to work.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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