Hi List:
Does anyone know what Linker Error #3 means? I'm attempting to
compile my application, that has compiled perfectly under 5.5, and I
get this error under r3, each and every time. It takes EVERY BIT of
15 minutes to even compile. It just sits there and sits there,
eating up ALL of my system resources so I can't do another thing
until it throws this error. Anyone else experiencing these kinds of
problems with RB? I could not use r1 or r2 because I couldn't waste
all of the compiling time. For universals, RB gives no choice but
to waste all of this time, which is why I'm wasting more time trying
to compile under r3, to prepare for Universal Binaries. Patience is
a virtue, but this is totally ridiculous.
Hi Mike
Sorry, I have no idea what that error number means...
BTW I also sometimes get VERY long compile times, sometimes exceeding
10 minutes. I've found there are two causes this:
1. Insufficient memory on my computer leading to frequent paging.
Newer versions of RB use a phenomenal amount of memory, and if you
don't have enough real memory the OS will have to swap, slowing
things down tremendously. My 7 MB project file uses over 1 GB of real
memory plus about 2 GB of virtual memory. I have 2 GB of RAM and wish
my system held more. :-)
2. Precompiling plugins can take a very very long time. I have about
a dozen plugins and it takes over 5 minutes to precompile them. RB
has a plugin cache so you should only need to wait through the
precompiling once. But it will need to recreate the plugin cache each
time you use a different version of RB, or anytime you change your
plugin folder.
It's also possible the plugin cache isn't being created properly due
to file permission or other access problems and thus you have to
unfortunately wait through precompiling the plugins every time.
FWIW My 7 MB project takes about 20 seconds to compile in 2006r3 on
my MacBook, and it took 40 seconds on my old 500 MHz Powerbook. So
I'm sure you can eventually dramatically reduce your 15 minute
compiles to something much more reasonable.
Hope this helps,
Joe Huber
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