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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=eliot.miranda@gmail.com
href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">Eliot Miranda</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:22 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [squeak-dev] failing to build a vm on
Windows</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Rob,<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Rob Withers <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:reefedjib@gmail.com">reefedjib@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
class=gmail_quote>I have had recurring problems building a vm on
Windows.<BR><BR>1) I first tried loading the latest version of VMMaker
(VMMaker-dtl.185) into a Squeak-4.2 image (10382). When I ran make it
complained about a number of plugins, starting with
UUIDPlugin:<BR><BR>UIDPlugin/sqWin32UUID.c:27: undefined reference to
`primitiveFail'<BR><BR>2) I tried loading VMMaker-John M McIntosh.184 instead
and same result<BR><BR>3) I was advised to load the Metacello load of VMMaker,
which includes VMMaker-dtl.169. This was complicated by double-encoded
strings. Past that issue and got it loaded. Generated and ran
make. Same issue with UUIDPlugin.<BR><BR>I cannot build a
vm.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Have you tried building a Cog VM recently? The advantage this has is
that everything you need to build is already in the svn repository. </DIV>
<DIV>See <A
title="http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/cygwinbuild/HowToBuild CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/cygwinbuild/HowToBuild">http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/cygwinbuild/HowToBuild</A></DIV>
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<DIV>HTH</DIV>
<DIV>Eliot</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Eliot,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It worked like a champ!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Rob</FONT></DIV>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>Thank you,<BR><FONT color=#888888>Rob
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