[Vm-dev] Compiling Newspeak Cog VM on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

[Philipp Tessenow]

Thanks Eliot, and Phil for your pointers. I'll try to compile the VM on
a clean 32bit Ubuntu next - maybe it's my 64bit system (and the 32/64bit
library mix) that causes problems. I'll report back, when there is progress.

To answer Eliots question to the vm-dev readers too, I'll cite Gilad
from its post in the newspeak mailing list:

> Philipp is working on a thesis on secure mirrors using Newspeak. As
> part of that, one would like to enforce access control at the VM
> level as has long been prophesied. Otherwise the secure mirror API
> would avail one little.

--
best,
Philipp

On 02/25/2013 07:03 PM, phil at highoctane.be wrote:
>  
> I don't know about that VM but I got the PharoVM run on debian 6 amd64
> yesterday.
> 
> Some of my findings and apt-gets + ln -s in there:
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.pharo.devel/75198
> 
> Phil
> 
> 2013/2/25 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>>     yes, those undefined warnings are the things to attack.  Things like
>>
>>         warning: undefined reference to `xcb_get_file_descriptor'
>>         /lib32/libpthread.so.0: warning: undefined reference to
>>         `_dl_deallocate_tls at GLIBC_PRIVATE'
>>         /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so:
>>         warning: undefined reference to `xcb_connect'
>>
>> I think indicate that both the 32-bit xcb library is wrong or not installed, and perhaps that the 32-bit C library is wrong (_dl_deallocate_tls at GLIBC_PRIVATE).  Unfortunately how to fix this, e.g. by installing the right libraries is not something I can help with; I only have a 32-bit VM to experiment with.
>>
>> One thing that might get you going is to use vm-display-X11 from my site, e.g. from http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2693/nsvmlinux-13.07.2692.tgz.
>>
>> By the way, why are you compiling your own VM instead of using one from my site?  Sounds interesting!!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Eliot
>>