Building the VM got easier? 64 bit ready?

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Thu Sep 22 19:59:04 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:31:16PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> On 22-Sep-05, at 12:01 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> >
> >This seems to have two implications, both of which are news to me:
> >* 64 bit squeak is buildable and operational
> >* current svn head and latest VMMaker get you there.
> >
> >Are either of those interpretations correct?
> 
> Almost. The SVN head and _very_ latest VMM (37?) PLUS a couple of  
> image tweaks that are awaiting inclusion in the 3.8 update stream  
> have been used to make 64bit clean VMs on RISC OS, OSX and by David  
> on *nix. As yet I'm not willing to claim completeness - I think  
> several plugins need some more attention and I have no 64bit machine  
> to test on - but it works reasonably well

Does "the latest VMMaker" refers to the one on squeakmap, or to ones
on your site?  The version numbering is confusing to me, because SM
shows 3.8b4 as the latest.  I figure 37 references some other kind of
versioning system.

I'm guessing the new VM requires a new image format...




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