[Vm-dev] Re: 64 bit VM, source anyone?

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi David!

"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:56:54PM +0200, goran.krampe at msc.se wrote:
> > Ok, so I was stupid enough to pick Debian Etch 64 bit when configuring
> > my last server. I knew it would bite me :) and here I am confused about
> > where to find a 64 bit VM to compile.
> > 
> > AFAIK lots of small patches have been flying around lately, but where
> > can I find a tar ball that has most of those? David, could you perhaps
> > create one?
> 
> Here is my current recipe:
> 
> 1) Load VMMaker from SqueakMap.
> 
> 2) Load the 32/64 bit-clean change sets. Presumably these will be merged into
> VMMaker, but in the mean time John has stashed them in the SVN platform
> sources. Go to platforms/Mac OS/vm/specialChangeSets/VmUpdates-dtl/ and
> load the following change sets:
>         VmUpdates-1001-dtl.1.cs
>         VmUpdates-1002-dtl.1.cs
>         VmUpdates-1003-dtl.1.cs
>         VmUpdates-1004-dtl.1.cs
>         VmUpdates-1005-dtl.1.cs
>         VmUpdates-1006-dtl.1.cs
>         JMM-VmUpdates32bitclean.2.cs
> 
> 3) Load the fix from Mantis 5688 (otherwise you cannot use SqueakMap):
>         http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5688
> 
> 4) Load the fix from Mantis 5238 (needed only for 64 bit image, but you
> may as well fix it while you're updating the rest):
>         http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5238
> 
> 5) Load the fix from Mantix 5403 (you don't need this, but I do):
>         http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5403
> 
> 6) Load SlangBrowser (you don't need it, but you'll want it if you are
> going to look at the VM and plugin code):
>         http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5932
>         http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5916
> 
> 7) Load the 32/64 bit updates for AsyncFilePlugin:
>         http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2007-November/001675.html
> 
> 8) Load the 32/64 bit updates for FileCopyPlugin:
>         http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2007-November/001679.html
> 
> 9) Load the 32/64 bit updates for LargeIntegersPlugin (unit tests only, the
> plugin is good as long as you have installed the Mantis 5238 patch from step 4):
>         http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2007-November/001693.html
> 
> That's all for now,

Great, thank you! Now for some stupid questions:

- You use this recipe together with the current trunk in SVN or?
- ...eh, ok, perhaps that was my only question. :)

I am considering creating two Mercurial repos:

- One mirroring Ian's SVN.
- One that I push all the above into and make available for write to
people asking. :)
- And a VMMaker repo.

Why? Because:

1. I would like to see if that works technically.
2. I would like to see if there is enough interest from others in a more
distributed and open "experimental" approach to maintaining the VM.

> Dave

regards, Göran