How to build an interpreter VM from source on a typical Linux or Unix system:
Install development tools for your Linux system (32-bit libraries are not required).
Install CMake, either from your Linux distribution or from www.cmake.org
Install Subversion, either from your Linux distributiion or from https://subversion.apache.org/
Make a new, empty, directory for your work.
In that directory, download the full platforms sources from the Subversion repository. Download everything, whether you need it or not. The Subversion directory information will be used in the build process, so do not cut corners to save space.
$ svn co http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms
Also in the new directory, download the generated sources. This is an up to date copy of source files generated from the Smalltalk source code in VMMaker. You can generate them yourself by loading VMMaker, but using the files from the Subversion repository is a faster way to get started.
$ svn co http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/src
You will now have ./platforms and ./src directories with the latest source code for the VM. Make another subdirectory called ./build that you will use to build the VM.
$ mkdir build
Change to the build directory.
$ cd build
Copy the example Makefile into your build directory.
$ cp ../platforms/unix/cmake/Makefile.example Makefile
Build the VM
$ make
Install the VM
$ sudo make install
You now have a VM that runs that classic Squeak image formats, including the 64-bit version (see http://build.squeak.org/job/Squeak%2064-bit%20image/).
This is a traditional context interpreter VM. It will not run the latest high performance Spur image formats. Please refer to the Cog and Spur VM development at http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/ and http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/ for the latest Cog and Spur VM development, and for VMs that support the new Spur image formats.
Dave