[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] FFI and current images/VMs

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 22:40:26 UTC 2017


After trying a fairly recent VM, I've actually had to go back to that
Aug-17-2016 VM, because of the frequency of crashes in the new VM.  Have
the very latest latest VM's fixed these crashes?  We might want to do some
testing before making it the one the world sees..

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:57 PM Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Over the last week, I've been trying to build a new image on the latest
>> trunk, which for my purposes needs to include ODBC, and until just
>> recently, I've been failing.
>>
>> After rooting around a bit, I finally found that the base trunk image I
>> was using (from this location: http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ ) seems
>> to all be based off of this VM:
>> [image: image.png]
>>  My previous image that I was porting from is:
>> [image: image.png]
>> which worked fine calling out FFI/ODBC.
>> After trying many changes (looking at 64 bit image, 32 bit image, other
>> fumbling around), I finally tracked down a current VM from
>> https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files
>> This version:
>> [image: image.png]
>> seems to work just fine with FFI (at leat, it runs the ODBC code without
>> a hitch).  Even in the 64 bit version.
>>
>> I've sent this message for a few reasons:
>> 1 - for my future self, to remember where the link is for the most
>> current VM's (I can't find a link to it elsewhere outside of the email
>> archives)
>>
>
> I've added the link to the vm section at: http://squeak.org/downloads/
>
>
>> 2 - for anyone else having FFI issues
>> 3 - as a subtle request to eventually update the stable, blessed version
>> of the VMs that are used in the bleeding edge Image archives, so that they
>> work better with less hassle.
>>
>
> I'm afraid we still don't have a good release process in place.
> However, I'm happy to update the vm used for the Squeak trunk bundles with
> a current bleeding edge vm if no one objects.
>
> Best,
> Fabio
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> cbc
>>
>>
>
>
>
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