[Vm-dev] [HowTo] Compile CogVM for Windows 7 using MinGW/MSYS

[stephane ducasse]

I do not understand what your objectives are. 
Our objective was to offer to the community an automatically build set of vms that do not require
to be a guru to compile. If people want to use our jenkins farm they simply can (just ask for an account and this is it).
We will continue improving it and use it to control the complexity. We are working on building a benchmark server.
Now if people prefer to do it manually, they also can, we just do not want. 

Stef

> Dear Stephane, all
> 
> Am 25.09.2013 um 08:04 schrieb stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at gmail.com>:
> 
>> 
>> Tobias
>> 
>> did you check all the work that igor and esteban did to make sure that 
>> all the vms can compile automatically on the build servers?
> 
> 
> No I did check not, but I am actually aware that the Pharo community
> has spend quite an effort to automatize the VM building process.
>  Kudos to you, Igor, Esteban, Mariano and whoever helped to make that
> work.
>  I know that the Pharo-flavour of Squeak by default includes
> Native Boost and constantly tries to sync with Eliot's VMMaker.oscog
> 
> So let me try to summarize all existing VM building systems
> NOT including what goes on in the VMMaker* packages.
> 
> • squeak-vm trunk (http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/):
> 	win32: MYSY/MinGW, hand-written ./configure, hand-written templated Makefile
> 	unix: CMake, host-compiler (mostly GCC 4)	Ian's comment: # Yes, it's true: you can write makefiles in COBOL.
> 	carbon (alias Mac OS): Xcode, Errors by default to not be used
> 	cocoa (alias iOS, for iPhone/OSX): Xcode
> 	RiscOS: Hand-written MakeFile (is this right, Tim?)
> • squeak-vm/stack-vm/Newspeak-vm cog branch (http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/):
> 	win32: cygwin, gcc3, hand-written Makefile, ./mvm shell script
> 	osx (using carbon): Xcode, gcc4, clang partly (llvm-gcc?), ./mvm shell script wrapper, ./makevm shell script wrapper
> 	unix: autoconf/automake, gcc
> 	RiscOS: ?
> • gitorious-hosted cog-vm (https://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed) [1]
> 	win32: CMake, using MSYS/MinGW
> 	osx: CMake, Xcode llvm-gcc not supported, seems to be based on the iOS/cocoa branch
> 	unix: CMake, gcc.
> 	Cmake-files generated by CMakeVMMaker.
> 	clones, use same build system:
> 	• pharo-vm (https://gitorious.org/cogvm/pharovm)
> 	• oz-vm ((https://gitorious.org/cogvm/ozvm)
> 
> That makes, by my counting, 8 distinct build systems. Note that the 
> CMake source for trunk-unix differs from the gitorious hosted one;
> the trunk-unix one is handwritten by Ian, the gitorious one generated
> by CMakeVMMaker.
> 
> Did I forget some?
> 
> Best
> 	-Tobias
> 
> 
> [1] I think, this is the source you meant, Stephane?
>    PS: The wiki link on http://code.google.com/p/cog/wiki/Guide points nowhere.