On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:10 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Thanks for the articulated reply.
> Anybody know which plugins will not work in 64bit?

I discovered today segfaults with jpegreaderwriter and 
then I switched back to 32 bit vm.

Norbert 


> A follow on question would be what have you and others learned about
> moving 32bit plugins to 64bit?  Back in the cobwebs I seem to remember
> you and Dan writing about your journey, but that's as far as my
> recollection goes. I'll search the archives for more, but if something
> comes to mind, I'd appreciate any help.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> brad
> 
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:53:54PM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> >> I was building the latest svn VM, out of the box, on a Linux 64bit
> >> machine, and while it made, it doesn't work when calling plugins (it
> >> segfaults). Could this because I built it, by default, on 64bit? If
> >> so, is there a way to set the compile to 32bit? I didn't see a setting
> >> for 32bit wide in.configure. Perhaps it's a --build=BUILD option?
> >
> > You will need to use a recent VMMaker with all of the 32/64 bit clean
> > patches applied. You can get this from the squeaksource.com project.
> > Some of the VMMaker versions on SqueakMap/Universes are probably not
> > up to date in this respect.
> >
> > Some plugins have not been update for 64 bit machines, so you will
> > not be able to build all of them.
> >
> > As for building 32 bit apps on a 64 bit Linux, I'm sure that's in the
> > Linux and/or GCC FAQs somewhere, but I always just build a 64 bit VM
> > for my own use and it works fine.
> >
> >> While I'm on the subject, I thought maybe I'd try the 64bit VM. What's
> >> the difference between the source at:
> >> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/
> >> and the svn at:
> >> http://www.squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi
> >
> > The sources are http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/dist3/ are the original
> > development work that Dan and Ian did to produce 64 bit Squeak VMs and
> > images. They are out of date with respect to current SVN sources and
> > current Squeak 32 bit images. Assuming that you are just trying to make
> > a 64 bit VM to run normal Squeak images, you can disregard the dist3
> > sources.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> 
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