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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Woodward dave@futuremint.com Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM Subject: [Pharo-project] Compiling a Squeak VM for Pharo on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server (64bit) To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr
I tried using the pre-compiled VM from the Pharo website to no avail. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but when running the pre-compiled Pharo VM, OR the pre-compiled Squeak 3.10-6 VM, they just quit with a "File not found" error. My only hunch regarding this is that they were compiled on 32bit Linuxes, and I'm using a 64bit Linux.
I'm using a bare-bones install of Ubuntu server, 8.04LTS 64bit. I'm using Slicehost.com for a virtual server to run a Seaside application (they use all 64bit *NIXs), and I'm switching from vanilla Squeak 3.9 to Pharo.
So, since the Squeak 3.10-6 VM didn't work either I decided to compile my own VM. This does not work out of the box on a vanilla Ubuntu Server 8.04 install, so here are the steps I took to successfully compile the VM from the 3.10-6 src files:
(cd /Squeak-3.10-6/platforms/unix)
Configure: ./config/configure --without-x --without-gl --without-quartz --without-npsqueak
NOTE: The configure command adds 2 entries to disable the RomePlugin. It looks like it first tests Freetype (not installed so adds an entry to disable RomePlugin), and then tests Cairo (not installed, so adds *another* entry to disable RomePlugin). I believe the autoconf files need to be fixed for this, but I leave it up to the squeak-dev folks to figure that out as I have no knowledge of autoconf.
Make: make squeak (this will error)
To fix the damage from the note above, I had to remove the duplicate entry for RomePlugin_exports on line 22 of disabledPlugins.c.
Make: make squeak (should be successful) make squeak install
move /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.10-6/UUIDPlugin to UUIDPlugin.bak as it has the wrong ELF header, and I've heard has other problems too.
And now /usr/local/bin/squeak should work! (note, without X you'll need to add "-vm display=none" for the VM to start).
I hope this helps people! Thanks for everybody's hard work on Pharo!
Dave Woodward ................................................... www.futuremint.com 317.332.6438 | dave@futuremint.com
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