[Vm-dev] Compiling the windows 32 bits vm

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Ben,

On 6 April 2018 at 06:38, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 April 2018 at 04:58, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Cyril,
>>
>> On 5 April 2018 at 22:54, Cyril Ferlicot D <cyril at ferlicot.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I tried using it on a recent Pharo 7 image and it worked pretty fine. I
>>> just got a message saying the vm it too old but I suppose it must be
>>> because during the automatic oscogvm builds some metadata are added are
>>> something like that.
>>
>>
>> You need to run scripts/updateSCCSVersions once after checkout.  That
>> installs the git hooks to keep the version info up to date.
>
> I know this is clearly stated in the README.md,
> but it seems to catch out many (an me multiple times, duh!)
>
> Someone mentioned adding it as a step to the makefile.
> That sounds like a good idea.

Right, that was Eliot (from memory).

On the rare occasion I build a windows vm it's in a virtualbox, and
updateSCCSVersions is slow, so we'd only want to invoke it if
required.

updateSCCSVersions creates three files which are the git hooks to
update the version info.  I think the absence / presence of those can
be used to determine whether to run updateSCCSVersions.


Cheers,
Alistair