Colin,
You basically just need the same voodoo that Linux user's currently have to do. You need to generate up to date C sources from the Squeak source and build your own VM. My very first diary entry on Squeak People has some very rough directions on this. I think if you checkout the 'ned-branch' branch of the sourceforge platform sources you can ignore the patch I mention in my diary.
Ken
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:10, Colin Putney wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to install Squeak on a headless FreeBSD box and I'm not sure what voodoo is currently required, if any. The key thing is that I want to be able to run a 3.7 image, which is problematic with the current Unix VM. So as far as I can see, my options are:
- Install the stock 3.4 VM Ian's site and do without the improvements he's made
since then - in theory I shouldn't need ephemerons etc.
- Use the current VMMaker to generate a source tree, patch it as necessary to
run the 3.7 image, copy it over to the FreeBSD box and build a VM from scratch. I've been unsuccessful when trying to do this on my Mac OS X box, but FreeBSD might be easier.
My gut says #2 is the better option, but is likely to be tricky. Any hints from the VM gurus out there?
Colin