Hi Ben and Karl

Wsl only runs ELF64 binaries anyway, so maybe we eventually just don't need
to worry about 64bit Windows anymore :)
Am 17.06.2016 5:59 nachm. schrieb "Ben Coman" <btc at openinworld.com>:

> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> we are all finished importing the VM repository to Github, migrating the
> >> scripts, and setting up automatic builds and hosting of binaries.  We
> want
> >> to switch over from SVN tomorrow morning at 7am UTC. At that point, Tim
> and
> >> Fabio will merge any remaining commits on the SVN repository between
> now and
> >> that time and any further development will take place on Github.  If
> >> possible, you may refrain from committing to SVN, as this will mean less
> >> work for Tim and Fabio.
> >>
> >> The new repository is at https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm. The Cog
> >> branch is the new default branch and is still called Cog, this is the
> main
> >> focus of development. The old trunk branch has been renamed to
> "oldTrunk".
> >> The master branch will track the Cog branch and will be the repository
> >> integrated into for releases.
> >>
> >> To get started, please refer to the updated README that is shown on the
> >> Github page.
> >>
> >> _,,,^..^,,,_
> >> best, Eliot, Tim & Fabio
>
>
> > On Jun 17, 2016, at 6:22 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Will Win x64 VM be built also ?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Karl,
> > Not yet.  No one has done the work to produce this.  And because
> Microsoft
> > in their infinite wisdom have chosen to make sizeof(long) = 4 in their
> > 64-bit model, not 8 as everyone else has, means that we will have
> > significant problems generating sources that will work.
>
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> In the meantime, though highly experimental and likely to fail,
> maybe you'd like to try a Linux x86 VM for Unbuntu On Windows...
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/commandline/wsl/about
>
> Running GUI apps..
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055403/windows/windows-10s-bash-shell-can-run-graphical-linux-applications-with-this-trick.html
>
> Some benchmarks...
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-10-lxcore&num=1
>
> cheers -ben
>
>
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