[squeak-dev] Building CogVM on FreeBSD

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Dec 5 22:30:24 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:58:53PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> 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.

You'll get a lot of these warnings when compiling 64-bit. Many can be
ignored, but some things do not work at all when compiled this way.
If you have specific problems, bring it up on vm-dev (yes I know you
originally asked the 3 + 4 question on vm-dev ;-)

Dave




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