Finally managed to carve out some time to try this again.

It looks like a few people have been looking into to this in the meantime (thanks a lot) and even though I can’t follow exactly what has been changed etc I can report that when I clone the latest opensmalltalk-vm I can get a working system. I can open a workspace and

Try a few tests with no crashes:

(10**22) sin -0.8522008497671888
fib := [ :n | n > 2 ifTrue: [(fib value: n-2) + (fib value: n-1)] ifFalse: [1]]. "closure on block variable"
fib value: 30. 832040
| x t |
x := #(30 36 42 54 66 69).
[1 to: 6 do: [:a | Transcript show: (Time millisecondsToRun: [t := (fib value: (x at: a))]). Transcript show: ' '. Transcript show: t. Transcript cr. ] ] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority.
1081502 / 1000 / 60.0 18.025033333333333
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10 55
Time durationToRun: [fib value: 42] 0:00:00:03.406797

2+2 4

I installed a clean FreeBSD 13 release.

I used a minimal install for org and a simple wm: openbox

Then did a git clone of: https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm

I changed the shell to bash then did:

./scripts/updateSCCSVersions

Then I changed to opensmalltalk-vm/building/linux64x64/squeak.cog.spur/build

Ran: ./mvm

Down loaded the latest Squeak6.0-22104-64bit.image & .changes and renamed them in the dir to squeak.image & squeak.changes. I copied the SqueakV60.sources here too.

./squeak ran.

I accepted all the defaults for configure & then installed system updates, FFI, and OS system.

And that’s it.