[Vm-dev] 64bits Pharo VM for windows

[Nicolas Cellier]

Hi Clement,
it's been a while since I last tested, but in a few words:
- win64 use it's own ABI
- we have to assign the registers differently than sysV
- the experiments I did resulted in VM crashing early (before opening
window)

Nicolas

2017-03-19 20:29 GMT+01:00 Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com>:

>
> Thank you very much for doing Nicolas. It is very important for many Pharo
> users to use Pharo 64 bits on Windows.
>
> What are the problems you have when trying to build the VM with the JIT
> that you don't have when building the stack VM ? Is it about API to make
> the memory executable, is it about calling conventions ?
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> And the appveyor builds are green
>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/OpenSmalltalk/vm/build/1.0.579
>>
>> 2017-03-19 17:31 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmai
>> l.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've built a 64bits pharo.stack.spur VM for windows on my machine,
>>> and I'm uploading the changes to opensmalltalk-vm in branch
>>> build_pharo_win32_with_cygwin
>>>
>>> If the appveyor job correctly succeed, I will emit a pull request.
>>>
>>> The VM does not have the SqueakSSL plugin yet.
>>>
>>> The 64bits squeak/pharo.cog.spur JIT for windows is still to come,
>>> but I did not work on it for a few months...
>>> One thing at a time.
>>>
>>> Let's cross finger
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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