From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: help! virtual memory exhausted
To: victor AT mechatro1 DOT Berkeley DOT EDU (Victor K. Chu)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:39:44 +0100 (METDST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)


Victor Chu writes:
> Help!!!  I have got a trouble with DJGPP.
> When I compiled one of my program, I got the following message:
> MAKE Version 3.7  Copyright (c) 1987, 1993 Borland International
> DPMI: Not enough memory (0x00340000 bytes).
> I am using a 486 PC with 8 MB RAM and 80 MB free hard drive space.
> 
> Does any one know if it is a limitation of my PC or a problem
> with my installation?  Any comment would be very appreciated.

The problem is with Borland Make.  Borland Make is a very greedy program, 
it grabs all available DPMI memory, thus leaving nothing for poor old GO32 !

You can do two things to avoid this:

(1) Add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
    SET DPMIMEM=MAXMEM 1024  (or a similar command, see Borland Manual)

(2) Use the MAKE program that comes with DJGPP.
    Make sure that \DJGPP\BIN is earlier in your PATH than \BORLANDC\BIN !

I would advice to switch to GNU make (option 2).

Regards,

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)