Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/22/00:41:52
Igor Gnip wrote:
>
> Hello to everybody. I have just started using djgpp.
>
> Trying to compile allegro 3.0 (actualy palantir, multitasking kernel for
> allegro)
>
> when I start make.exe (using "make -f makefile.dz") i get "virtual memory
> exhausted"
>
> I know that 16MB ram is not much, but I have 600MB of hard disk space, and
> I am positive that my TEMP, GO32TMP and any other needed environment
> setting is
> properly mapped to C:\TEMP, so I wonder why it does't work.
>
> some informatio about software and hardware:
>
> - AMD 486DX4/120
> - 16 MB RAM
> - 600MB free space on drive C: (environment variable set to C:\TEMP)
> - Windows 95 (Windows manages virtual memory usage, no limit on swapfile
> size)
>
> my question is: Is there some limit (with W95) to available DPMI memory ?
>
> (can I allocate 40MB of memory under win95 dos box ?, under CWSDPMI ???)
>
> P.S. I prefer DOS, but it doesn't support long file names :(((
In "DOS Box Properties" (or some such, I don't use Win95), you have to
manually set DPMI memory to 65535. "Auto" will limit it to 16MB, which
is frequently not enough.
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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