To high compiler memory consumption > 8 GB

[Szyk]

Hi
I have small console application which loads database witch sample data and copies images into server working directory (server is other app). In that app I have resource file with 180 images various sizes, but less than 10MB in total. I try build (debug) this app on machine with 2GB RAM + 3GB swap, but it failed (it reports that RAM is not enought).So I increase swap size to 20GB and I observe that it uses 2GB RAM + 6GB swap (8GB in total) to compile that small app!!! Compile release version uses only little less memory (7,6GB)!!! Please clarify whether qt resurorce is not good for many files? I planed hundredths (or even thousands) files stored in exe (I want hide everything from user). Should I store my images in zip file and then embedded it in to my exe? And then copy it from exe into Temp dir and extract images and then copy them to its destination?

My enviroment is: Windows 10 64bit, VC++ 15, Qt Creator 4, Qt 5.6

Thank you. Best regards.
Szyk Cech

[jefftee]

Are you referring to the memory required by VC++ or can you be more specific which tool is requiring so much memory? The resource file you reference wouldn't seem to require any where near that much memory.

[anda_skoa]

If you look at the files generated by rcc for the source files, you will see that each file gets converted into a block of data, basically a char array.
These files then need to be compiled.

If you have a large amount of data in a single resource file, then the resulting generated code gets very large, stressing the compiler when it processes them.

One option is to use several resource files, each with a smaller amount of data.

Cheers,
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[Szyk]

In *.pro file I need to add this line:

CONFIG += resources_big

CONFIG += resources_big

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And now it compiles as expected...

[jefftee]

Awesome, glad you found a workaround!