[Vm-dev] boid implementation on roarvm

clin4j at tutanota.de clin4j at tutanota.de
Thu Dec 31 13:24:28 UTC 2015


Argh~ I missed the step about acquiring the image. Great thanks for the 
help! 

29. Dec 2015 18:03 by smalltalk at stefan-marr.de:


>
> Hi:
>
>> On 29 Dec 2015, at 08:17, >> clin4j at tutanota.de>>  wrote:
>>
>> I read that the discussion related to RoarVM[1] is here. I do not have any 
>> experiences about small talk, squeak vm, etc. After reading RoarVM 
>> github[2], its main website[3] and slide[4], it doesn't mention how to use 
>> RoarVM. I thought that was passing the source like [4], but from the 
>> output
>>
>> Usage: rvm ... <snapshot-file-name.image>
>>
>> It looks like I am wrong. So I would like to know if any documents tell 
>> how to use ram and some simple tutorial?
>
> The very basics are documented here: > 
> http://stefan-marr.de/renaissance/#get-started
> The last line of section “Building the RoarVM form Source Code” also starts 
> the VM.
>
> My guess is that the confusion comes from Smalltalk using an image that 
> contains the source code.
> You seem to try to pass the code file directly to the VM, which 
> unfortunately won’t work.
> The VM first needs the image, which contains the whole system to be run.
>
> Hope this helps
> Stefan
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