[Development] 32bit linux build of qt5.10.0 w/ webengine

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Jan 3 18:48:01 CET 2018


Toan Pham wrote:
> I over came the memory limitation by forcing ninja to run in single thread
> (pass -j 1 to ninja).  However, at linking stage using a 32bit linker, the
> linker failed because it could not find references to avx2 in libvpx, a
> third-party library that I hacked to get AVX2 disabled.  Since you've been
> recommending that I should use 64bit linker, this error is completely
> unrelated to the memory address limit of a 32bit linker.  While the 32bit
> linker was doing its job linking libQt5WebEngine.so, its maximum memory
> usage (RSS) was 1.8GB, not anywhere close to the maximum addressable limit
> of 32bit executables.

libvpx detects vector instructions at runtime. Therefore, it is not 
necessary to disable AVX2 support even if your machine does not support 
AVX2.

        Kevin Kofler




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