Squeak on Linux/iPaq page updated

Bruce ONeel beoneel at bluewin.ch
Thu Jul 26 17:29:48 UTC 2001


Hi,
	Thanks, this is in the unix-linux area on the ftp site.

cheers

bruce

Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> At long last I've updated things at my Squeak on Linux/iPaq page 
> (http://www.reasonability.net/ipaq).
> 
> I have a new Linux-ARM compiled VM linked off that page.  This VM was 
> generated from a fairly recent 3.1 image, and contains the Genie Plugin as 
> well as OSProcess 2.2.  It also contains the serial port fix for the 2.4.X 
> kernel series that appeared some time ago.  CommandWindow is included as well.
> 
> The VM is built with GCC 2.95.1.  I tried building with GCC 2.95.3, but Squeak 
> segfaults on startup when run on the latest stable release of Familiar (found 
> at www.handhelds.org).  Probably some more wierdness with ARM for GCC, who 
> knows. :(  As before, this is an unoptimized VM due to perpetual optimisation 
> bugs in ARM GCC.
> 
> I also uploaded a new TinySqueak.image.  This image is a 3.0 image with Genie 
> backported to it (thanks, Nathanael!).  The reason I'm not using the 3.1 image 
> anymore is size....try as I might I couldn't get the latest 3.1 image to 
> shrink down to anything smaller than 8 megs, which is too big for my purposes.
> 
> The new TinySqueak.image is roughly 4.8 megs in size, and that's WITH Genie, 
> OSProcess+CommandWindow, and Morphic.  Tiny!!
> 
> I've also linked to my shrinker changesets of there, for anyone that's 
> interested.  The latest shrinker jettisons a -lot- to get that 4.8 meg image 
> size, but the image is quite functional (a perfect Squeak Runtime Environment 
> for loading your changesets into).
> 
> (I'm trying to keep things as small as possible...I want to work within the 
> limits of the stock iPaq, with no added flash RAM or microdrives. :)




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