On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:25:22AM +0200, Norbert Hartl wrote:
With the debian packages you can have
- a 32 bit vm in a 32 bit debian installation (everything works)
- a 64 bit vm in a 64 bit debian (you will have trouble to use plugins like FFI. That's the reason I don't use it)
A bit off topic, but I have recently gotten FFI working on 64 bit Linux:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2008-April/001900.html
However the changes are rather extensive and are not yet complete for other platforms, so I would not expect this to be quickly incorporated into the VM distributions.
There has been some progress on other plugins as well, summarized here:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2007-December/001703.html
FilePlugin, SocketPlugin, BalloonEnginePlugin, BitBltSimulation, OSProcessPlugin, XDisplayControlPlugin and AioPlugin have been 64 bit clean for a long time.
So progress is slowly being made.
Dave