[Vm-dev] Fwd: [Pharo-project] Compiling a Squeak VM for Pharo on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server (64bit)

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:14:21PM +0200, Damien Cassou wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dave Woodward <dave at futuremint.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM
> Subject: [Pharo-project] Compiling a Squeak VM for Pharo on Ubuntu
> 8.04 LTS Server (64bit)
> To: pharo-project at lists.gforge.inria.fr
> 
> 
> I tried using the pre-compiled VM from the Pharo website to no avail.
> I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but when running the
> pre-compiled Pharo VM, OR the pre-compiled Squeak 3.10-6 VM, they just
> quit with a "File not found" error. ?My only hunch regarding this is
> that they were compiled on 32bit Linuxes, and I'm using a 64bit Linux.

A likely guess is that some 32-bit library needs to be installed on the
Linux system in question. The Squeak 3.10-6 VM runs fine on my 64bit
SuSE laptop.

> I'm using a bare-bones install of Ubuntu server, 8.04LTS 64bit. ?I'm
> using Slicehost.com for a virtual server to run a Seaside application
> (they use all 64bit *NIXs), and I'm switching from vanilla Squeak 3.9
> to Pharo.
> 
> So, since the Squeak 3.10-6 VM didn't work either I decided to compile
> my own VM. ?This does not work out of the box on a vanilla Ubuntu
> Server 8.04 install, so here are the steps I took to successfully
> compile the VM from the 3.10-6 src files:
> 
> (cd /Squeak-3.10-6/platforms/unix)
> 
> Configure:
> ./config/configure --without-x --without-gl --without-quartz --without-npsqueak
> 
> NOTE: The configure command adds 2 entries to disable the RomePlugin.
> It looks like it first tests Freetype (not installed so adds an entry
> to disable RomePlugin), and then tests Cairo (not installed, so adds
> *another* entry to disable RomePlugin). ?I believe the autoconf files
> need to be fixed for this, but I leave it up to the squeak-dev folks
> to figure that out as I have no knowledge of autoconf.
> 
> Make:
> make squeak ?(this will error)
> 
> To fix the damage from the note above, I had to remove the duplicate
> entry for RomePlugin_exports on line 22 of disabledPlugins.c.

Thats a problem of some sort in configure, but note also that RomePlugin
will not work on 64-bit systems (Mantis 7344).

Dave