Why is the linker terminating on me? when i build CLang

Solution 1:

Your virtual machine does not have enough memory to perform the linking phase. Linking is typical the most memory intensive part of a build since it's where all the object code comes together and is operated on as a whole.

If you can allocate more RAM to the VM then do that. Alternatively you could increase the amount of swap space. I am not that familiar with VMs but I imagine the virtual hard drive you set-up will have a swap partition. If you can make that bigger or allocate a second swap partition that would help.

Increasing the RAM, if only for the duration of your build, is the easiest thing to do though.

Solution 2:

Also got the same issue and solved by doing following steps (It is memory issue only) -

1. Checks current swap space by running free command (It must be around 10GB.).

2. Checks the swap partition

   sudo fdisk -l
   /dev/hda8       none            swap    sw              0       0
   

3. Make swap space and enable it.

   sudo swapoff -a
   sudo /sbin/mkswap /dev/hda8
   sudo swapon -a
   

If your swap disk size is not enough you would like to create swap file and use it.

1. Create swap file.

   sudo fallocate -l 10g /mnt/10GB.swap
   sudo chmod 600 /mnt/10GB.swap
   

   OR
   

   sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/10GB.swap bs=1024 count=10485760
   sudo chmod 600 /mnt/10GB.swap
   

2. Mount swap file.
   

   sudo mkswap /mnt/10GB.swap
   

3. Enable swap file.
   

   sudo swapon /mnt/10GB.swap