[Vm-dev] Building on Alpine Linux

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:20 PM Pierce Ng <pierce at samadhiweb.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 02:35:54PM -0300, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> > I read you say "I've successfully built the pharo.cog.spur.minheadless
> > OpenSmalltalk VM on Alpine Linux."
> > Can you elaborate more on that? Where did you put your work? A separate
> > branch/fork? Did you change the VM to link against musl?
> > Did it compile out of the box?
>
> It compiled more or less out of the box. The changes I made were mostly
> to link with additional libraries for functionality that on Alpine have
> been put into those libraries. I made these changes by modifying the
> output of cmake, which is the reason for my mail to this list: I want to
> to find out which files to modify so that cmake produces the right
> output for Alpine. Then I'll create a branch/PR.
>
>
Exactly. That's the changes I were expecting.



>
> > What our happened in our case is that even if `musl` would give us a
> > compatible API in the sense the VM would compile, then, on usage we
> > detected things that internally had different behaviors (like iconv). Did
> > you encounter anything of this?
>
> That's what I'll find out.  As written in my post said Cog VM
> successfully runs a minimal Pharo image doing FFI and Fuel.
>
> I'll be testing it with the regular image running some kind of webapp.
>
> I've also put the Docker image on Dockerhub, but I just looked again and
> see that it is missing libgit2, libssh2, etc., so probably no good for
> running the regular Pharo image for now.
>


Excellent. Let us know. In our experiments we found out a few places that
behaved differently (the one I remember now is iconv()) but I guess it all
depends on "how much" your VM uses from gblic, right? So maybe you use safe
areas where both behave the same :)

Anyway, great work and keep pushing.


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