[Vm-dev] Has anyone done a tutorial on...

Phil B pbpublist at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 22:03:43 UTC 2017


On Sep 18, 2017 11:12 PM, "Ben Coman" <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:



> (You folks do some nice work in VM-land... sure would be nice if it were
> more easily reproducible by those of us who don't work with the internals
> daily.  For example: what is the recommended way to build a VMMaker image
> these days?  Tried the obvious ways in Squeak 5.1 and Pharo 6.1 and both
> failed...)
>

Should be as easy as...
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git
$ cd opensmalltalk-vm/build.linux..../pharo.cog.spur/build.debug/
$ ./mvm
...and look for binaries in "products" directory.

Maybe there are times when your installed autotools versions conflicts
(IIUC Eliot sometimes has problems on newer Linux versions).
If you hit such problems, one path forward may be to leverage Luke's work
to produce a Nix build, which "should" be entirely reproducible on anyone's
environment.
  http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Nix-package-for-Pharo-flavor-of-
opensmalltalk-vm-td4942450.html
  http://forum.world.st/nix-based-build-system-was-
problem-with-configure-and-libGL-on-CentOS-6-5-td4944335.html
@Luke, could you refresh me on how to kick off a Nix Pharo VM build on a
non-NixOS platform?

cheers -ben



Ben,

Building the VM hasn't been my issue (it's been working nicely for me in a
variety of Linux environments), building the VMMaker image has been the
problem.  A while back I was using Eliot's buildsqueaktrunkvmmakerimage.sh
script but that stopped working for me (I think the last time it
successfully ran for me was pre-github migration).  Last week I tried to
manually install the VMMaker package in Squeak and got an error, this week
I tried to install it via Pharo and got a different error.  So rather than
try to debug any of these approaches which may be obsolete, I was really
trying to ask for pointers to the currently recommended method to build a
VMMaker image.

Thanks,
Phil


> Thanks,
> Phil
>
> On Sep 18, 2017 7:38 PM, "tim Rowledge" <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>
> When possible you’re much better off using the VMSimulator to examine an
> image.
>
> > On 18-09-2017, at 4:25 PM, Phil B <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Using gdb to explore a running image?  Blog post or video format is
> great.  Most of what I've run across is related to the internals of the VM
> rather than debugging an image.  My gdb skills are pretty rusty plus I
> suspect that not knowing all of the helper functions available in the VM
> (and how to best use them in a debugging workflow) is slowing me down.
>
>
> tim
> --
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