[squeak-dev] Squeak on Mac OS X Sierra

Jakob Reschke jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de
Fri Feb 3 16:52:59 UTC 2017


Since this comes up repeatedly, it might be helpful to add a note to
the Mac OS download on squeak.org.

2017-02-03 17:47 GMT+01:00 Jakob Reschke <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de>:
> Hi,
>
> you need a newer VM, as answered here, for example:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41401327/squeak-doesnt-run-on-mac-os-sierra/41403340#41403340
>
> The last decision that I know of is to only include a newer VM version
> in the next release of Squeak and not update the current bundle.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jakob
>
> 2017-02-03 17:37 GMT+01:00 yakovdk <yakovdk at gmail.com>:
>> OK, I've been watching for awhile now, since I upgraded to Sierra, and still
>> can't find a Squeak package that will run.  I'm not the greatest Smalltalk
>> genius, but it looks like the issue was solved in the Pharo community.  I
>> can run theirs -- but I like Squeak!  Even if I run the nightly builds or
>> the 6.0 alpha, it still fails.  When I run it, an icon appears in my dock,
>> but there is no window.
>>
>> I did search through the forum to see if I could find any solution, but the
>> Pharo discussion is all that turns up for me -- maybe I missed it somehow.
>> I found:
>>
>> This thread has a broken link to a VM that worked for one guy, but I can't
>> find it now:
>> http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Does-Not-Run-on-MAC-OS-Sierra-td4918570.html#a4918576
>>
>> This poor soul posted in December, but received no replies:
>> http://forum.world.st/Squeak-5-1-on-macOS-sierra-td4925827.html
>>
>> Right now I have to run Squeak in a Linux VM.  I can't imagine I'm the only
>> person to be having this problem -- is Mac OS X Sierra not a target platform
>> for Squeak?  Should I just switch to Pharo?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>


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