I’m looking forward to this. 
Yesterday, in a process of debugging my systemd experiments [1], I compiled an interpreter vm. I mention this, because you are talking about making the process easy. David T. Lewis made a fire-and-forget script that is the easiest way I’ve seen so far to compile a vm on Linux. [2] I’m looking forward to CMake classes for building a Squeak vm.. 

Chris 

[1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2014-July/179015.html <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2014-July/179015.html>
[2] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-October/166038.html <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-October/166038.html>
It didn’t seem to compile an X11 plugin, so I copied one from an earlier build. And I had to pull the no-sound plugin from out of its folder, so the vm could find it. The squeak.sh script wasn’t working.



> On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:05 AM, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim.
> 
> >>We can try; and a written explanation intended for someone that hasn’t used it before is a pretty good exercise in testing that it actually works. 
> 
> 
> HelpBrowser openOn: CMakeVMMakerSqueakStartHereHelp                                         <--done. Gives an example workflow for generating a CMake build tree and compiling the VM.
> HelpBrowser openOn: CMakeVMMakerSqueakStepByStepNewConfigurationHelp            <--first draft almost done, should get you to the point where its a matter of setting CFlags, Libs, Definitions etc, for your Platform and then buildType.
> 
> Top menu->Help->CMakeVMMakerHelp includes the above and other help work I will be editing. 
> 
> My goal is that a complete newbie can follow the instructions and be able to get an entire VM producing image and compile the thing just by following help starting with a bash shell script that downloads and configures an image for VM production followed by what you will be working with above.
> 
> Feedback from you (and others) on using the thing will be incorporated into that.
> 
> I would start with the StarHereHelp and just generate a cmake tree using the example Builder and Configuration.
> 
> Once you have generated the CMake tree, the (too verbose, first-draft) NewConfigurationHelp in your case boils down to copying an existing configuration and making some minor modifications to it.
> 
> Please note that I have only built out the #build buildType--I will be building out the build.assert, build.debug, etc....buildTypes when the Help is done and I have resolved  NoDbgRegParms issue on my platform for those buildTypes.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> tty.
> 
> 

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