count_binary example -- fatal error couldn't allocate heap?

There have been reports of intermittent cygwin issues with anti-malware software, such as Windows Defender, and older versions of McAfee. If one of the differences between your two machines is with this software, then your solution might be to upgrade the anti-malware software.

There were problems in earlier versions of the Nios II software when running on Vista 32, but I haven't seen these with Nios II 9.1. Which OS are you using?

There has also been a report of getting this problem when the path to the source is 'long'. In that case, shortening the path to the source made the problem go away.

I also notice that there is chac_rules.mk in your error message. This implies you are using C2H. Are you trying to hardware accelerate something in count_binary? Does it work if you don't do that? Sometimes, when you use C2H in a project and decide you don't want it, you may have a hard time getting rid of C2H in the project. If this is the case, try creating a count_binary project again without C2H and see how that goes.

-edj