[Vm-dev] NativeBoost installation woes with Mac OS X

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 14:36:43 UTC 2011


On 30 September 2011 11:42, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hi. On an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I followed the instructions to
> install a NativeBoost VM found here:
> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation. I downloaded the
> latest Mac NBCog VM,  and ran into an error after evaluating NBInstaller
> install.
>
> I'm using the 4.3alpha-11636.image file. The 4.2 image gives a different set
> of errors but also wont install:
>
> The progress bar window says: Compiling NativeBoost-Core-IgorStasenko.36
>
>
> The window title is "Syntax error" with a split text field. The top field
> contains:
> nbExternalStructure Fields parsing spec parseFields:byte
>
>
> The bottom field has a red error message embedded in this line:
>
>        stream peek == #Invalid literal character ->; ifTrue: [ stream next
> ].
>    ].
>
>
>
> Help?
>
I didn't tested an installation in squeak 4.2 images.
It looks like there is a change in parser which don't likes the
following syntax:

#( a; b ; c)


imo, this is correct syntax. a ';' should be converted to #; symbol.

-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.


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