[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] Condensing sources for a new release

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi David,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 6:09 AM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> I need some help on this, can someone please test the converted 32-bit
> image on Linux and/or Windows? I'm have problems with my 32-bit libraries
> (I think) and I don't have any time to follow up on it today. Thanks!
>
> The actual image conversion seems to work fine, and it's fast. But I
> don't have a 32-bit VM at the moment, probably due to Linux runtime
> library issues that I don't have time to sort out this morning.
>

I can confirm that using Cog-eem.400 to convert the 64-bit to 32-bit image
results in a functional result.



>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:47:34PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:48:49AM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi David, Hi Release Manager, Hi All,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:03 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A 64-bit to 32-bit image converter would be a very good thing to have
> > > > in our toolkit :-)
> > >
> > > I got this working this morning.  See Cog-eem.398.  So to use,
> > > - clone or update an opensmalltalk-vm repository
> > > - cd to the image directory and create a VMMaker image via either
> > > buildspurtrunkvmmaker64image.sh or buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh
> > > - run a converter, e.g.
> > >     Spur32to64BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6'.
> > >  (produces trunk6-64.image & trunk6-64.changes)
> > >     Spur64to32BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6-64'.
> > > (produces trunk6-64-32.image & trunk6-64-32.changes)
> > >
> > > Converting a 28Mb 64-bit image into a 22Mb 32-bit image takes 9
> seconds on
> > > my 2.9GHz Core i9 MacBook Pro
> > >
> > >
> > > So let's try releasing by converting the 64-bit image into a 32-bit
> one.
> > >
> >
> > Bravo! I am away now but will try doing an image conversion as soon as
> > I can tomorrow.
> >
> > Thanks Eliot,
> >
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best, Eliot
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