On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 05:13:05AM +0000, B J wrote:
> I finally got it running.  I configured my computer with FreeBSD 10.1
> (64-bit version) using Mate as the desktop and Slim as the login
> manager.
> 
> I installed it directly from the repository using:
> 
> pkg install squeak
> 
> and it starts up almost instantly.  It never occurred to me that
> everything has to be 64 bits as there's no indication on the FreeBSD
> ports web page that it's required.
> 

Great! Thanks for the update.

Dave

> Thank you to everyone for their advice.  It took longer than I
> expected to get Squeak running, and I tried a number of things that
> didn't work, I learned a lot from this, including things like how to
> compile from source code.