Cygwin PHP (all available versions) has a hard 4MB memory limit

[Cary Lewis]

Thank you Ken, I followed your instructions and I am now able to use https
and composer with your versions of php.

Did you have to apply any of the cygport patches?

I hope that the offical cygwin repos and mirros get updated.

Thanks again.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:45 AM Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:

> [Please don't top-post on this list.]
>
> On 8/3/2020 9:57 PM, Cary Lewis wrote:
> > I am running php on two different Windows 10 computers, and on one
> machine I can
> > run composer with no issues, but on other I get our of memory issues.
> >
> > Both report:
> >
> >   php -v
> > PHP 7.3.7 (cli) (built: Jul 21 2019 18:10:35) ( NTS )
> > Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
> > Zend Engine v3.3.7, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
> >
> > but trying to execute:
> >
> > composer require twilio/sdk
> >
> > on one of the machines results in this:
> >
> > PHP Fatal error:  Out of memory (allocated 38273024) (tried to allocate
> 2098524
> > bytes) in
> phar:///usr/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/RemoteFilesystem.php on
> > line 459
> >
> > Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 38273024) (tried to allocate
> 2098524
> > bytes) in
> phar:///usr/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/RemoteFilesystem.php on
> > line 459
>
> I sent my proposed fix for the originally reported problem to the
> cygwin-apps list:
>
>    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-July/040350.html
>
> But no one has stepped forward to take over maintainership.  If you want
> to try
> my build to see if it fixes your problem too, you can install it from my
> personal Cygwin repo by using setup-x86_64.exe.  Follow the instructions
> here:
>
>    http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/
>
> If this works for you, I'll try again to get the fix into the Cygwin
> distro.
>
> Ken
>