[Vm-dev] Compiling squeak-vm for Linux 64bit

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 15.03.2009, at 14:54, David T. Lewis wrote:

>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:18PM -0400, whaevr wrote:
>>
>> Been trying to compile the latest squeak-vm (version 3.10-4) for  
>> x86_64
>> Linux, heres my configure line:
>>
>> ./Squeak-$_realver/platforms/unix/config/configure --prefix=/usr
>> --without-quartz --with-x --enable-mpg-mmx
>>
>> Ignore the $_realver its a variable used in the pkgbuild. It gets  
>> through
>> configure but on running make it stops with the following error:
>>
>>
>> vm/vm.a(sqUnixMain.o): In function `vm_parseEnvironment':
>> sqUnixMain.c:(.text+0x15ad): undefined reference to  
>> `setLocaleEncoding'
>> vm/vm.a(sqNamedPrims.o):(.data+0x68): undefined reference to
>> `FileCopyPlugin_exports'
>> vm/vm.a(sqNamedPrims.o):(.data+0xc0): undefined reference to
>> `MIDIPlugin_exports'
>> vm/vm.a(sqNamedPrims.o):(.data+0xd0): undefined reference to
>> `Mpeg3Plugin_exports'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make: *** [squeak] Error 1
>
> Hi Pat, thanks for joining the vm-dev list.
>
> (Note to list: Pat is trying to build a 64-bit Linux distribution  
> package
> for a Squeak vm that can run an OLPC image. Bert and I suggested  
> that we
> move the discussion to this list.)
>
> Pat, can you clarify where you obtained the source code for version
> 3.10-4? I am assuming that you are using sources that contain support
> for OLPC, but I'm not sure if you are getting them directly from the
> Subversion repository or from some other site. I want to try to  
> reproduce
> the problem on my PC if possible.

I told Pat to use the official sources, so this should be the tarball  
from

	http://squeakvm.org/unix/

We have merged the olpc branch into the trunk, there are no special  
OLPC sources anymore.

- Bert -

> For your reference, when I build a 64-bit VM (for my personal use, I
> do not distribute it), I will get the sources directly from Subversion
> as follows:
>  $ svn co http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk squeak-svn-source
>
> I assume that you are building the VM using the sources found in
> the ./platforms/unix/src directory. It may not be obvious, but the
> files in this directory are actually intermediate files, the result
> of automatic code generation from the "real" sources, which are
> written in Smalltalk and maintained in the Squeak image (in a package
> called "VMMaker").
>
> This is important for building the VM on 64-bit Linux, because there
> are a number of updates in the Smalltalk VMMaker sources needed for
> a 64-bit that may not yet be reflected in the files that you find
> in your platforms/unix/src directory. Likewise, there are changes
> in the OLPC VMMaker sources that may not yet have been included in
> the generic VMMaker (and we want to sort that out of course).
>
> Let me know where you downloaded your sources from, and I'll try
> to reproduce the errors.
>
> Dave
>