[squeak-dev] Building CogVM on FreeBSD

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Sun Dec 5 19:58:53 UTC 2010


On 2010/12/05 19:15, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 06:14:54PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>>
>> And building completed without error! I haven't attempted running an
>> image; I only have terminal access to a FreeBSD machine.
>>
>> I'd mentioned in vm-dev that it would be really useful to have an image
>> that only evaluated "3 + 4" and wrote that to stdout. (Maybe someone
>> already has one?) We could use that with a Hudson instance, and verify
>> our VM builds automatically.
>>
>> frank
>
> Actually, you do not need a special image for this. Just supply a start
> script when you start Squeak, and run headless using the -vm-display-null
> parameter. The script can evaluate 3+4, write output to /dev/tty, then exit.
> An example start script is attached.

Excellent!

Turns out I'd only run configure, not make, so when I've figured out 
what make's telling me I did wrong (it might be a 64-bit thing judging 
by "warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size"), I'll give 
it a whirl.

frank



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