<p dir="ltr">Hi Ben and Karl</p>
<p dir="ltr">Wsl only runs ELF64 binaries anyway, so maybe we eventually just don't need to worry about 64bit Windows anymore :) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Am 17.06.2016 5:59 nachm. schrieb "Ben Coman" <<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com">btc@openinworld.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> we are all finished importing the VM repository to Github, migrating the<br>
>> scripts, and setting up automatic builds and hosting of binaries. We want<br>
>> to switch over from SVN tomorrow morning at 7am UTC. At that point, Tim and<br>
>> Fabio will merge any remaining commits on the SVN repository between now and<br>
>> that time and any further development will take place on Github. If<br>
>> possible, you may refrain from committing to SVN, as this will mean less<br>
>> work for Tim and Fabio.<br>
>><br>
>> The new repository is at <a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm</a>. The Cog<br>
>> branch is the new default branch and is still called Cog, this is the main<br>
>> focus of development. The old trunk branch has been renamed to "oldTrunk".<br>
>> The master branch will track the Cog branch and will be the repository<br>
>> integrated into for releases.<br>
>><br>
>> To get started, please refer to the updated README that is shown on the<br>
>> Github page.<br>
>><br>
>> _,,,^..^,,,_<br>
>> best, Eliot, Tim & Fabio<br>
<br>
<br>
> On Jun 17, 2016, at 6:22 AM, karl ramberg <<a href="mailto:karlramberg@gmail.com">karlramberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Will Win x64 VM be built also ?<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Karl,<br>
> Not yet. No one has done the work to produce this. And because Microsoft<br>
> in their infinite wisdom have chosen to make sizeof(long) = 4 in their<br>
> 64-bit model, not 8 as everyone else has, means that we will have<br>
> significant problems generating sources that will work.<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi Karl,<br>
<br>
In the meantime, though highly experimental and likely to fail,<br>
maybe you'd like to try a Linux x86 VM for Unbuntu On Windows...<br>
<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/commandline/wsl/about" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/commandline/wsl/about</a><br>
<br>
Running GUI apps..<br>
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055403/windows/windows-10s-bash-shell-can-run-graphical-linux-applications-with-this-trick.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055403/windows/windows-10s-bash-shell-can-run-graphical-linux-applications-with-this-trick.html</a><br>
<br>
Some benchmarks...<br>
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-10-lxcore&num=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-10-lxcore&num=1</a><br>
<br>
cheers -ben<br>
<br>
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