"Bert Freudenberg" bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 12.02.2009, at 13:53, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:08:53AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 12.02.2009, at 06:12, David T. Lewis wrote:
I am attaching two files to show the complete build process on a 64-bit Linux system. I expect that it should work exactly the same on your 64-bit FreeBSD.
If the goal is just to make a usable VM on a 64-bit Linux system, is the VMMaker step necessary? I thought not, but if the sources fail to compile out-of-the-box then we should try to fix that.
I guess that the platforms/unix/src sources should work in principle, although I would not be surprised if there are problems when compiling on a 64-bit system. The platforms/unix/src source probably contain source for plugins that have not been updated for 64-bit.
Personally, I'm just in the habit of using VMMaker and I tend to think of the platforms/unix/src files as something that is there mainly for reference.
Well it's also there for convenience, so a standard "configure; make; make install" works.
I'd hoped it would be this simple. I'd be happy to find out that no, it's just me being silly, and not a bug in the codebase. I _didn't_ find it as simple as configure; make; make install. It took me pasting snippets of gcc output to a C fundi to come up with CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS and such to get a VM compiled.
I'm happy, if it's not simply a malconfigured system on my part, to periodically run a smoke-test on my machine.
frank