Hi,

I have a problem when trying to build my project with Visual Studio 2015.

Description

I'm using MSBuild 14.0 and the 2015 compiler and encounter the following error :

 fatal error C1060: compiler is out of heap space

quite randomly.
After that, random errors like the following will appear, but the one described upper is always the first one.

fatal error C1090: PDB API call failed, error code '24':
Internal Compiler Error in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64_x86\CL.exe.
cl : Command line error D8040: error creating or communicating with child process

Using MSBuild 12.0 and the 2013 compiler on the same build worker image is running perfectly.

The visual 2013 & 2015 solutions are generated using gyp.

The project itself is on GitHub and is private, so I can't share here the code I'm using. But I don't think this is a big issue for the following reasons :

• It's C++ code, it is quite modern C++ but not heavily templatized
• I can reproduce the error on a local VM with interesting results described below

Findings

I can reproduce the problem on a local VM I have set up with Windows 10 and Visual 2015. If I set the VM memory to 4 GB (the same as the build worker image), then it will show the same behaviour.
Also I know it does not come from the C++ code itself, as I can run MSBuild several times and after some point (at most 3 consecutive builds) have my project correctly built and linked.

The behaviour upper is the same with update 1 or update 2 of MSVS2015.

I'm not using precompiled headers (this is what shows up mostly when searching for this error on google/stackoverflow)

Question

I'm quite surprised as it seems I'm the only one facing this error. But maybe others found a working and acceptable workaround for this problem?

Any information on that matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Raphael