Building coreclr on Linux appears to require more than 512MB of RAM to be installed (which rules out a number of lightweight VMs that developers might use when getting started). Presently, this is not documented, and the error message when the system runs out of RAM is unhelpful.
Background
I attempted to build coreclr according to https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/wiki/Linux-instructions
Since I'm on Windows, I installed Vagrant (with the default VirtualBox provider) and pulled down the ubuntu/trusty64 box and began to follow the build instructions. When I ran build.sh, I made it most of the way through the build, until I received the following error when trying to link libcoreclr.so:
Linking CXX shared library libcoreclr.so
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nostdinc++'
clang: error: linker command failed due to signal (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [src/dlls/mscoree/coreclr/libcoreclr.so] Error 254
make[1]: *** [src/dlls/mscoree/coreclr/CMakeFiles/coreclr.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Failed to build coreclr components.
By searching around on the web a bit, I was able to discover that this is frequently the result of not having enough RAM in the box. The VM I was using had 512 MB by default, so I bumped it to 1 GB and retried. This time, the build completed successfully.
It would be useful to have a note in the build instructions indicating the required amount of RAM; it would also be cool if the error message could be tweaked to be more informative.
Building coreclr on Linux appears to require more than 512MB of RAM to be installed (which rules out a number of lightweight VMs that developers might use when getting started). Presently, this is not documented, and the error message when the system runs out of RAM is unhelpful.
Background
I attempted to build coreclr according to https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/wiki/Linux-instructions
Since I'm on Windows, I installed Vagrant (with the default VirtualBox provider) and pulled down the
ubuntu/trusty64box and began to follow the build instructions. When I ranbuild.sh, I made it most of the way through the build, until I received the following error when trying to linklibcoreclr.so:By searching around on the web a bit, I was able to discover that this is frequently the result of not having enough RAM in the box. The VM I was using had 512 MB by default, so I bumped it to 1 GB and retried. This time, the build completed successfully.
It would be useful to have a note in the build instructions indicating the required amount of RAM; it would also be cool if the error message could be tweaked to be more informative.