"Not enough storage is available to process this command." on Windows 7

[steves]

I'm encountering a compile error while trying to get rust-sfml working. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit with 32gb of RAM and over 40gb of available disk space. I've copied the SFML and CSFML files over to MinGW and am running the latest Rust 0.10-pre-nightly installed less than an hour ago. When I run rustc src/lib.rs I get the following error:

task 'rustc' failed at 'failed to print diagnostics: unknown error (OS Error 8: Not enough storage is available to process this command.)', c:\bot\slave\nightly-win\build\src\libsyntax\diagnostic.rs:267

Running with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 I just get the following:

$ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 rustc -o lib src/lib.rs
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: gcc arguments: '-m32' '-LC:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib' '-o' 'lib' 'lib.o' '-lmorestack' 'lib.metadata.o' '-shared-libgcc' '-LC:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib'
'-lstd-31b43f22-0.10-pre' '-LC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\steve\dev\test_project\lib\rsfml\.rust' '-LC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\steve\dev\test_project\lib\rsfml' '-lcsfml-system' '-lcsfml-window' '-lcsfml-audio' '-lcsfml-graphics' '-lcsfml-network' '-lgcc_s' '-shared' '-lcompiler-rt'
note: error: internal compiler error: unexpected failure
note: the compiler hit an unexpected failure path. this is a bug.
note: we would appreciate a bug report: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/complement-bugreport.html
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace
task 'rustc' failed at 'failed to print diagnostics: unknown error (OS Error 8: Not enough storage is available to process this command.)', C:\bot\slave\nightly-win\build\src\libsyntax\diagnostic.rs:267
stack backtrace:
   1:  0x19b8d85
   2:  0x19b8276
   3:  0x1754b00
   4:  0x1752f22
   5:   0xac0d0c
   6:   0xabe535
   7:   0xbaddc8
   8:   0xbb0ff9
   9:   0xbd43bd
  10:   0xbe5ed7
  11:   0xbe48d9
  12:   0xbe0b6e
  13:   0x42f8f3
  14:  0x1a45e1c
  15:   0x42f7a0
  16:  0x1a4919d
  17: 0x77289f72

I've looked around online and found some references to this error that involved messing around in the registry. I've tried all of them with no luck so far. I can build my own simple projects just fine so it's not a general purpose "rust is completely broken" issue.

Many of the references I've found to this error, including one on Microsoft's site, mention that this is common primarily when you have anti-virus but I'm not running any.

$ rustc -v
c:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustc.exe 0.10-pre-nightly
host: i686-pc-mingw32

[Aatch]

So it appears that the issue is when it's trying to print the diagnostics, after it hits an error during linking. While the issue is still valid, I suggest checking that all the libraries you are using are installed, that paths are correct and similar.

[steves]

A clean install of MinGW fixed this problem. I must have messed up the environment somehow along the way without realizing it.