Article # 33, added by Geoworks, historical record
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Pmake needs more memory.
Q. When I run pmake, it starts to compile my code, and in a minute or so it stops and gives me an error, but it doesn't say what error, just "Error". A. You might want to increase the memory available to the compiler. It needs a lot of memory, probably 6Mb or more. Your machine must have 8Mb to use pmake, and if you're running it with a SmartDrv disk cache, you'll probably need even more memory. Under Windows you can create a permanent swap file to help provide memory for pmake. Windows 95 handles memory correctly with DOS apps, so this does not seem to be a problem if you're running the SDK from '95. Not all DOS's are created equal. Even on a system with 32+MB of RAM and running DR-DOS 6 you could get this error. The same system running Novell DOS 7 works fine. This appears to be a problem with the way XMS is handled by the DOS.