[squeak-dev] [VM] [ENTERTAINMENT] A one-step VM build for hobby hackers

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 16:06:03 UTC 2012


On 12-10-07 12:00 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >From time to time, I try to update the instructions for building a unix
> interpreter VM. These tend to get out of date, so I decided to try doing
> it in the form of a script that can be run from a clean Squeak image to
> load, generate, configure, and build a VM.
>
> If you have a Unix/Linux system with development tools, you may want to
> try this yourself. Start in a clean directory, then run the attached
> VMUnixBuild.st script as follows:
>
>   $ squeak myImage VMUnixBuild.st
>
> You can also evaluate the script piece-by-piece in a workspace to get
> a better feel for the process. Note that the steps that are done with
> OSProcess/CommandShell can be done in a normal unix terminal window,
> but I did it here with OSProcess so that the entire process can be done
> in a script.
>
> I don't know if this works on Mac OS X. If someone can give it a try,
> please let us know if it works.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
I used Dave's script a few days ago to do this and it was lots of fun. 
If there's an easier and more reliable way to make a vm, I don't know 
it. Reading the script is also very useful.

Chris
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