Eclipse crashes with a GC overhead limit exceeded error

Question

It\'s the first time I am using Proguard, I\'ve noticed that if you add many custom rules to proguard-project.txt it takes obviously much more time for building

Answer 1

Fixed, I read all the others forum posts about the problem but no one said how to fix it on Eclipse. I found the fix here

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EDIT: in case the link becomes dead, here's what you can do. Edit "eclipse.ini", and set something like that:

-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m

Answer 2

Remove all errors and warnings from your layouts. Make sure you are running the eclipse in admin mode (windows users) Go to your eclipse folder location -> open eclipse.ini file then make sure to match following.

-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6-Xms512m-Xmx1024m

this may help you a little bit.

and

Change Target SDK in your manifest to 18 for the time being to avoid the crashes. Issue is with android-19. Wait for another update before switching back.