[PyQt] "making" sip-4.15.2 - how much memory does this need???

[Timothy W. Grove]

Okay. I've updated my MinGW files and seem to have gotten away from my 
memory problems. It appears that 'make' was just looping, going in and 
out of the sipgen directory and not much else until my system ran out of 
memory space. Now, starting with a clean download of sip and running 
commands from the Windows terminal, I get the following (still 
erroneous) output. Running from a MYSYS terminal has similar results 
which I can include if that helps. Does the following give any clues to 
my problems? I have previously installed PyQt4.10 using the Windows 
installer; would any sip files from that be interfering? Thanks for any 
help.

installed: mingw32-gcc-g++ 4.8.1-3; mingw32-make 3.82.90-2-cvs-20120902

Best regards,
Tim Grove

## WINDOWS CMD TERMINAL
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

## CONFIGURE
C:\Users\Timothy\Downloads\sip-4.15.2\sip-4.15.2>C:\Python33\python.exe 
Configure.py --platform win32-g++

This is SIP 4.15.2 for Python 3.3.2 on win32.
The SIP code generator will be installed in C:\Python33.
The sip module will be installed in C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages.
The sip.h header file will be installed in C:\Python33\include.
The default directory to install .sip files in is C:\Python33\sip.
The platform/compiler configuration is win32-g++.
Creating siplib\sip.h...
Creating siplib\siplib.c...
Creating siplib\siplib.sbf...
Creating sipconfig.py...
Creating top level Makefile...
Creating sip code generator Makefile...
Creating sip module Makefile...

## MAKE
C:\Users\Timothy\Downloads\sip-4.15.2\sip-4.15.2>C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe

mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory 
'C:/Users/Timothy/Downloads/sip-4.15.2/sip-4.15.2/sipgen'
gcc -c -O2 -w -DNDEBUG -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I. -o main.o main.c
gcc: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
Makefile:29: recipe for target 'main.o' failed
mingw32-make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory 
'C:/Users/Timothy/Downloads/sip-4.15.2/sip-4.
15.2/sipgen'
Makefile:3: recipe for target 'all' failed
mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2

On 11/10/2013 13:38, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
> I've downloaded the source for sip-4.15.2 and have been trying to 
> install in on Windows 7. Possibly not a good idea as I don't wish to 
> interfere with sip in my current installation of PyQt4.10.3, but 
> another package I'm trying to install requires sipdistutils and 
> sipconfig, and I can't find these. What version of sip is PyQt4.10.3 
> built on? I've already read some documentation on build systems at 
> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/build_system.html, so it may be 
> that I cannot install this other package in its current state anyway 
> (https://github.com/hmeine/qimage2ndarray).
>
> I followed the instructions found at 
> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/sip4/installation.html (mingw32-g++) 
> and ran the following in the Windows cmd terminal.
>
> c:\python33\python configure.py --platform win32-g++
> C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe
>
> 'Configure' worked fine and 'make' started out okay but eventually 
> failed. I tried the same from within a MSYS terminal (mintty.exe) with 
> the same results but this time my system complained about running out 
> of memory. I ran the commands again but with a memory monitor running 
> and saw memory usage creep up slowly until it ran out completely and 
> then failure came again. I've got 3Mb of RAM installed and on my 
> 32-bit Windows system this is all it can use. Does installing sip 
> really require this much memory, or does this point to a 'leak' 
> somewhere?
>
> Any advice welcome.
>
> Best regards,
> Tim Grove
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