[squeak-dev] Windows interpreter VM (was: All-in-one VM for 4.4?)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Mar 7 17:06:41 UTC 2013


On 2013-03-07, at 17:18, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:58:24PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> 
>> Nobody built that Mac interpreter VM in ages. Current XCode doesn't even ship a PPC tool chain anymore, so you cannot easily build it even if you wanted. Same for the 5.4.x series really (which also is more than 2 years old).
>> 
>> In short, there is no up-to-date interpreter VM for the Mac, indeed. Nor is there an official one for Windows, unless I'm mistaken. The only current ones are on Linux.
>> 
> 
> Regarding the Windows VM, Ian has built an up to date interpreter VM for
> Windows and made it available through Andreas' squeakvm.org page here:
> 
>  http://squeakvm.org/win32/
> 
> This is fully up to date to the same level as the unix VM. It is marked
> as a beta release that needs testing, so if any Windows users can please
> give it a try, that would be very helpful.
> 
> The previous Windows builds are still available at http://squeakvm.org/win32/release,
> but those older builds cannot be used with images saved from Cog. So barring
> any problems that might arise in testing, the latest build provided by Ian
> should now be the recommended version for Windows.
> 
> Until or unless we have an alternative plan for carrying on Andreas' work
> in the trunk code base, I think we can safely treat this as an official
> release.
> 
> Dave


Ah, I had forgotten about that! Kudos to Ian! And since his Unix VM works on the Mac, too, we *do* have a current interpreter after all. It wasn't as polished as John's IIRC but definitely usable.

- Bert -




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