Hello Dave

The only thing than which would have helped Dimitris considerably
Iwould be to have the pointer

you mention
    http://squeakvm.org/unix/devel.html

in one of the welcome workspaces or  the help system. Is this the main
entry point?

For example I was not aware that you update these instructions
regularly and that they are well worked out. This actually motivates
me to try it out in Ubuntu 12.04.


--Hannes



N.B. a link to an already existing instruction page how to get the C++
compiler and libraries up and running
   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   (etc., in Debian, what else do I need besides build-essentials)
added to a prerequisites section in
    http://squeakvm.org/unix/devel.html
would be very helpful in addition.


On 8/22/12, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:12:45AM +0100, dimitris chloupis wrote:
>>
>> Whats funny is that if you ask here at mailing list you get a lot of
>> useful
>> answer but those answers dont make it back to documentaion. People are
>> bored
>> making documentation but cant resist answering in malling list with often
>> extremely detailed helpful info as Davind's pst which I think should be
>> included with Squeaks onboard documentation.?
>>
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> The information that I provided on the mailing list is actually a shorter,
> but more up to date, version of the instructions here:
>
>   http://squeakvm.org/unix/devel.html
>
> I completely agree with you on the importance of in-image documentation.
> However, in this case it may be better to keep it on the web because most
> of what I wrote is very platform-specific, and also specific to one flavor
> of VMMaker and build procedure. As I am sure you have noticed by now, there
> are several different ways to interface to external libraries, each with
> advantages and disadvantages.
>
> In any case, I hope you are successful in trying one or two of these
> approaches and forming your own opinions :)
>
> Dave
>
>
>