Squeak on Linux/AMD64

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Sat Oct 2 11:05:33 UTC 2004


Am 02.10.2004 um 11:57 schrieb Lukas Renggli:
>
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Works for me out, of the box on a vanilla Fedora Core 2 (64 bit) on 
>> Athlon64. You need the 32 bit libs, of course. Fedora was so wise as 
>> to leave 32 bit libs in /usr/lib and just add /usr/lib64 for new 64 
>> bit libs. Other distros have different policies, but you should be 
>> able to get it to run with a bit of work.
>
> Indeed, I initially forgot to install the 32-bit libs, I thought it 
> was enough to have 32-bit support in the kernel. Ehh, I'm no unik geek 
> ;)
>
> Now the whole thing looks already much better, but it still doesn't 
> work. I get the help-text of Squeak when running it, but when I try to 
> open an image, it can't find the display-plugin. In fact it can't find 
> any of the plugins, even-tough I pass the correct path with -plugins. 
> So I think this is another 32/64-bit problem, but I have no idea where 
> to look. Do you have any idea? My platform is Linux AMD64 
> 2.6.8-gentoo-r4.

Hmm, don't know. Did you try an ldd on the vm-display-X11 plugin? Maybe 
it cannot find the X11 libs or OpenGL or something. You might try to 
play around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

- Bert -




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