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

[Ronie Salgado]

Hi,

Give me until sunday for refactoring this and supporting the Metal backend,
and the old OpenGL backend. I think that it should be possible to select
the actual kind of view based on what is available(MTLDevice can be null if
not supported), or by providing a command line option in the worst case.

Best regards,
Ronie

El jue., 21 mar. 2019 a las 16:48, Eliot Miranda (<eliot.miranda at gmail.com>)
escribió:

>
> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
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