[squeak-dev] FFI and current images/VMs

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 01:29:24 UTC 2017


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:57 PM Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Over the last week, I've been trying to build a new image on the latest
>> trunk, which for my purposes needs to include ODBC, and until just
>> recently, I've been failing.
>>
>> After rooting around a bit, I finally found that the base trunk image I
>> was using (from this location: http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ ) seems
>> to all be based off of this VM:
>> [image: image.png]
>>  My previous image that I was porting from is:
>> [image: image.png]
>> which worked fine calling out FFI/ODBC.
>> After trying many changes (looking at 64 bit image, 32 bit image, other
>> fumbling around), I finally tracked down a current VM from
>> https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files
>> This version:
>> [image: image.png]
>> seems to work just fine with FFI (at leat, it runs the ODBC code without
>> a hitch).  Even in the 64 bit version.
>>
>> I've sent this message for a few reasons:
>> 1 - for my future self, to remember where the link is for the most
>> current VM's (I can't find a link to it elsewhere outside of the email
>> archives)
>>
>
> I've added the link to the vm section at: http://squeak.org/downloads/
>
>
>> 2 - for anyone else having FFI issues
>> 3 - as a subtle request to eventually update the stable, blessed version
>> of the VMs that are used in the bleeding edge Image archives, so that they
>> work better with less hassle.
>>
>
> I'm afraid we still don't have a good release process in place.
> However, I'm happy to update the vm used for the Squeak trunk bundles with
> a current bleeding edge vm if no one objects.
>

Sounds good to me.  Recent changes have been bug fixes or performance
improvements anyway.


>
> Best,
> Fabio
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> cbc
>>
>>
>
>
>


-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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