Is this the only way to get a 64 bit Linux VM?






On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I fordward an email from someone having problems to compile squeakVM
>
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> From: Dave Woodward <dave at 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 at 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
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