[Vm-dev] Next Release Candidate?

[Bruce O'Neel]

Hi,

Just for refrerence I have built 6cd4bb2c4 on linux x86-64, Linux
Armv7, and Linux Armv8 and it seems to check out.

So for the systems that few people use we're ready to go!

cheers

bruce

On 2022-04-08T17:12:34.000+02:00, Marcel Taeumel
<marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> -------------------------
> 
>  Hi all --
> 
> It looks like all urgent fixes have made it into the Cog branch by
> now. I think we can make a new release candidate at the beginning of
> next week. :-)
> 
> We just have to:
> - Re-generate the sources for VMMaker.oscog-mt.3178 to include
> #primitiveMultipleBytecodeSetsActive and
> #primitiveBytecodeSetsAvailable (thanks Dave!)
> - Figure out two minor issues in the 32-bit build concerning
> callbacks and (longlong) type coercion in the SqueakFFIPrims plugin;
> if not, should not be a show stopper :-)
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
> 
>>  Am 06.01.2022 16:05:14 schrieb Marcel Taeumel
>>  <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>  
>>   Hi all --
>>  
>>  Well, I figured that the pre-compiled (default) manifest only
>>  bothers 32-bit builds for Windows because there we use gcc instead
>>  of clang. I am still trying to understand how we can fix the
>>  32-bit builds for Windows in this regard. Just deleting
>>  
>>  msys64/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/default-manifest.o
>>  
>>  does not do the trick as the linking step (ld) will fail quite
>>  early [1]:
>>  
>>  i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o mkNamedPrims.exe -mconsole -m32
>>  ../../../platforms/win32/util/mkNamedPrims.c
>>  C:/msys64/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10.3.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>>  cannot find default-manifest.o: No such file or directory
>>  collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>  make: *** [../common/Makefile:221: mkNamedPrims.exe] Error 1
>>  
>>  ***
>>  
>>  So, the question is: Should I try to fix this and then make
>>  another release candidate, which would include the already pushed
>>  [2] SqueakSSL fixes for Ubuntu 16 as well? Or should we keep the
>>  current one? What about that hard-to-reproduce/debug BitBlt
>>  segfault [3]? Hmm...
>>  
>>  Best,
>>  Marcel
>>  
>>  [1] https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/454
>>  [2] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commits/Cog
>>  [3] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2021-December/217834.html
>>  
>>>   Am 27.12.2021 10:20:57 schrieb Marcel Taeumel
>>>   <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>>   
>>>    Hi all --
>>>   
>>>   There will be another release candidate because our current
>>>   build system for Windows (i.e., MSYS+MinGW) hard-codes a
>>>   manifest into the executable, which prevents us from enabling
>>>   High-DPI-Awareness.
>>>   
>>>   Stay tuned.
>>>   
>>>   Best,
>>>   Marcel
>>>   
>>>>    Am 20.12.2021 15:31:00 schrieb Marcel Taeumel
>>>>    <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>>>    
>>>>     Hi all --
>>>>    
>>>>    Here is the next release candidate:
>>>>    https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112201228
>>>>    [https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112201228]
>>>>    
>>>>    Note that the macOS build artifacts are still unsigned and not
>>>>    notarized but will be as soon as I attach those to our
>>>>    squeak-app bundling job [1], which produces ready-to-run
>>>>    artifacts [2]. So, if you cannot manage to execute the macOS
>>>>    artifacts in this form, please report, compile yourself,
>>>>    and/or wait for a separate notification on the squeak-app
>>>>    bundles.
>>>>    
>>>>    Best,
>>>>    Marcel
>>>>    
>>>>    [1] https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/actions
>>>>    [2] http://files.squeak.org/trunk/
>>>>    
>>>>>     Am 09.12.2021 10:57:56 schrieb Marcel Taeumel
>>>>>     <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>>>>     
>>>>>      Hi all --
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Please test this VM version:
>>>>>     https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112022203
>>>>>     [https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112022203]
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Choose your preferred platform. Focus on cog.spur flavors
>>>>>     for 64-bit machines.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Best,
>>>>>     Marcel
>>>>>     
>>>>>>      Am 01.12.2021 10:38:47 schrieb Marcel Taeumel
>>>>>>      <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>      Hi all --
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>      What's you overall feeling of having a new release
>>>>>>      candidate of the OSVM?
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>      Overall pace has been decreasing during the last weeks.
>>>>>>      Maybe this is a good time then? Latest commit was about 10
>>>>>>      hours ago. So, wait for 2-3 days and then tag that
>>>>>>      version, produce binaries and test those?
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>      Best,
>>>>>>      Marcel

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