[Vm-dev] No more support for running 64-bit VM on macOS < 10.13?

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Tim,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:18 AM Tim Johnson <digit at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is running the 64-bit VM now unsupported on anything less than macOS
> (nee OS X) 10.13 or 10.14?  Perhaps because of the Metal changes and
> OpenGL deprecation...?
>
> I just compiled the 64-bit VM[1] fresh and tried running it on my
> 10.12.6 system.  I got a Squeak window with no graphics inside (just
> blackness) and a message on my terminal console:
>
> 2019-03-21 10:58:55.324 Squeak[70669:4778174] Pipeline state creation
> error: Function screenQuadFragmentShader is using language version 2.1
> which is incompatible with this OS.
>

My understanding is that this is a temporary situation, the result of Ronie
having made an initial Metal implementation which needs to be revised to
account for earlier versions.  The tip no longer runs on 10.13.  i hope
that Ronie can solve this, or that I (we?) can work with Ronie to address
this serious p[roblem quickly.


>
> If so, I may need to make a choice between:
>
> - upgrading my operating system,
> - using the 32-bit VM (though my image is 64-bit),
> - staying on an older VM version (though I leave it running for many
> days and its memory usage balloons from ~313 megabytes to multiple
> gigabytes, perhaps due to the event handling memory leak bug, which I
> was hoping to leave behind).
>
> I wonder if it would be worth the effort to handle this situation
> gracefully rather than bringing up a non-functioning environment which
> requires a force-quit.  Perhaps this could be easily accomplished by
> including the proper minimum OS version in the Info.plist of the 64-bit
> app bundle and letting macOS do the work of disallowing a launch on
> older OS versions.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim J
>
>
>
> [1] build.macos64x64/squeak.cog.spur
>


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best, Eliot
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