On Darwin (which uses its own linker and not GNU ld), you can definitely build Swift with less than 16GB of RAM available.
Maybe you could try gold? Slava > On May 6, 2017, at 7:21 PM, Brandon B via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I’m installing Swift 3 on FreeBSD 11. After installing the necessary > dependencies, I now only need to run the build-script. > > The problem is that I cannot proceed beyond: > > > Linking CXX executable bin/llvm-lto > > because I consistently run out of memory on my 16GB server. > > From what I’ve gathered, the problem lies in ld which is apparently > infamous for this sort of behavior. > > I know that I can run ld without debug options (which would reduce its memory > footprint dramatically) but I don’t know how I would do that, given that it > is called by the build-script. > > What do I need to do to make the build-script use less memory? > > — Brandon Bradley > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
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