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Windows Host, QNX650: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

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Applicable Environment

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Topic: Windows Host: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
SDP: 6.5.0
Host: Supported Windows host

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Issue

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When working with Momentics IDE or command line tools, I am seeing:

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0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x71690000, RegionSize 0x160000, State 0x10000
C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\cp.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
make[1]: *** [dataserver] Error 1
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m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 0x71690000, m.RegionSize 0x480000, m.State 0x10000
C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x71690000 <0x2330000>) in child, Win32 error 0
0 [main] sh 10100 sync_with_child: child 1368(0x1D8) died before initialization with status code 0x1
395 [main] sh 10100 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
C:/Users/bhatch/AppData/Local/Temp/make11508-1.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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How do I resolve these kinds of errors?

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Solution

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Try using rebase.exe (available at https://cygwin.com/install.html) with msys-1.0.dll (i.e. C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll).
The utility changes the base of a non-pic DLL like msys
You can try base addresses 0x50000000 and 0x30000000

Example:
rebase.exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1.0.dll
rebase.exe -b 0x30000000 C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll

If, when running this tool, you get this error:
msys-1.0.dll: skipped because wrong machine type.

To fix "wrong machine type":

The error appears when using the 64-bit version of rebase.exe

Use the 32-bit version of rebase.exe

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NOTE: This entry has been validated against the SDP version listed above. Use caution when considering this advice for any other SDP version. For supported releases, please reach out to QNX Technical Support if you have any questions/concerns.

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