> On Feb 11, 2020, at 6:48 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> Update - I resolved my library problem, and can run the traced image.
> However, it opens with an empty black window (but no VM crash or error
> messages).
> 
> The image that I converted was Squeak5.3beta-19335-64bit.image. I'll
> try some others later.

And the 64-bit image opens correctly?

> 
> Meanwhile if anyone else can give this a try, please do :-)

Shall do.

> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:09:53AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> I need some help on this, can someone please test the converted 32-bit
>> image on Linux and/or Windows? I'm have problems with my 32-bit libraries
>> (I think) and I don't have any time to follow up on it today. Thanks!
>> 
>> The actual image conversion seems to work fine, and it's fast. But I
>> don't have a 32-bit VM at the moment, probably due to Linux runtime
>> library issues that I don't have time to sort out this morning.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Dave
>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:47:34PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:48:49AM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi David, Hi Release Manager, Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:03 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> A 64-bit to 32-bit image converter would be a very good thing to have
>>>>> in our toolkit :-)
>>>> 
>>>> I got this working this morning.  See Cog-eem.398.  So to use,
>>>> - clone or update an opensmalltalk-vm repository
>>>> - cd to the image directory and create a VMMaker image via either
>>>> buildspurtrunkvmmaker64image.sh or buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh
>>>> - run a converter, e.g.
>>>>    Spur32to64BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6'.
>>>> (produces trunk6-64.image & trunk6-64.changes)
>>>>    Spur64to32BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6-64'.
>>>> (produces trunk6-64-32.image & trunk6-64-32.changes)
>>>> 
>>>> Converting a 28Mb 64-bit image into a 22Mb 32-bit image takes 9 seconds on
>>>> my 2.9GHz Core i9 MacBook Pro
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So let's try releasing by converting the 64-bit image into a 32-bit one.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Bravo! I am away now but will try doing an image conversion as soon as
>>> I can tomorrow.
>>> 
>>> Thanks Eliot,
>>> 
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