On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Tim Felgentreff
<timfelgentreff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben and Karl
>
> Wsl only runs ELF64 binaries anyway, so maybe we eventually just don't need
> to worry about 64bit Windows anymore :)

Its only Win10, and it'll be a few years before Microsoft manages to
force upgrade everyone ;).  But maybe it will help streamline the
build system.
cheers -ben

>
> 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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