VM-beginners February 2019

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A couple of vm beginner questions
by Philip Bernhart 06 May '19

06 May '19

Hi, I have a bunch of "beginner"(?) questions: 1. How to ensure that my local "stable" build from "stable" sources corresponds to the "stable" vm binary published on squeak.org? For example some time ago I build from the stable tag 201807260206 (= commit d1f3fb1c76ad72155d3becc8f9bed7d70e9485a9) which resulted in a VM which somehow had some weird and hard to understand issues with numbers corresponding in blaming the running smalltalk implementation in my case cuis: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/issues/145 2. How to build the VM for a platform which has the dietlibc or a different implementation of the standard C library? I once tried to build it on alpine linux so to get a minimal and small baseimage of it running to be able to use it in within Docker containers without waiting 30 minutes for the build, because of added sizes and complexities when relying on a more "standard" base linux system (*cough* ubuntu *cough*). 3. What is now the supposed "best practice" of adding functionality to squeak? Say I want to add to it support for password hashing using libsodium and the library blocks the VM when trying to do more elaborate calls, so an async call would be much less of a pain from the user perspective. So async calling in a FFI library of that code or moving that into a VM plugin so it's much wider supported? 4. How to specialized VMs for special use cases? Like for example I would want to build the VM for some architectures where there is no binary around and which don't like or support any JIT implementation. How do I correctly select the VM, configure and build it and also can ensure that it works? That's probably already too much to be answered in one mail. Thanks, Philip

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Porting the vm to arm aarch64
by Philip Bernhart 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Hi, I tried recently to compile the VM on a pine64, which is a 64bit ARM variant. I stumbled over that autoconf couldn't find the platform type an issue which I'm investigating. Anyway some suggestions regarding getting the VM running on a slightly different platform would be nice. Thanks, Philip

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VM-beginners February 2019