Adobe Flash iOS packager throws java.lang.OutOfMemoryError when packaging large projects

Question

I've been porting a Flex 4 codebase to iOS using the adobe packager, but have run into a snag when trying to package our whole codebase. The packager runs for a while and then throws an OutOfMemoryError - even if I increase the java heap size to 4GB.

No single piece of code seems to be causing the problem, as it compiles successfully if I cut out large chunks of code, and I can change which chunks I'm omitting. It might be related to the size of the code itself.

I've logged a very detailed bug report with adobe here: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-32192 . It includes an AIRI file that you can package to reproduce the issue, a ruby script that generates actionscript code to generate that AIRI file, and a summary of all of the things I tried before logging the bug.

Has anyone else tried compiling large projects with the iOS packager? Are there any known workarounds?

Answer 1

try to use x64 Java runtimes. It solved the similar issue for me - project packaged successfully using x64 Java runtimes only, x86 Java process couldn't allocate as much RAM as it needed to package my project even with heap sizes increased.