[Vm-dev] NativeBoost installation woes with Mac OS X

[Igor Stasenko]

On 1 October 2011 02:24, Henrik Sperre Johansen
<henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no> wrote:
>
> On 30.09.2011 18:20, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> On 30 September 2011 18:11, David T. Lewis<lewis at mail.msen.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:36:43PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 30 September 2011 11:42, Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi. On an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I followed the
>>>>> instructions to
>>>>> install a NativeBoost VM found here:
>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation. I downloaded
>>>>> the
>>>>> latest Mac NBCog VM, ??and ran into an error after evaluating
>>>>> NBInstaller
>>>>> install.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using the 4.3alpha-11636.image file. The 4.2 image gives a
>>>>> different set
>>>>> of errors but also wont install:
>>>>>
>>>>> The progress bar window says: Compiling
>>>>> NativeBoost-Core-IgorStasenko.36
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The window title is "Syntax error" with a split text field. The top
>>>>> field
>>>>> contains:
>>>>> nbExternalStructure Fields parsing spec parseFields:byte
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The bottom field has a red error message embedded in this line:
>>>>>
>>>>> ?? ?? ?? ??stream peek == #Invalid literal character ->; ifTrue: [
>>>>> stream next
>>>>> ].
>>>>> ?? ??].
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Help?
>>>>>
>>>> I didn't tested an installation in squeak 4.2 images.
>>>> It looks like there is a change in parser which don't likes the
>>>> following syntax:
>>>>
>>>> #( a; b ; c)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> imo, this is correct syntax. a ';' should be converted to #; symbol.
>>>>
>>> Squeak 3.6:
>>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>>>
>>> Squeak 3.8:
>>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>>>
>>> Squeak trunk:
>>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>>>
>>> PharoCore-1.3-13173:
>>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>> ok, then problem is in something else.
>> Lawson, could you please paste the full method source with problematic
>> code?
>>
>
> #; inspect -> Syntax error though...
>
> ps.
> stream peek == #;
>
> sure it's not a typo and should be
> stream peek == $;  ?
>
yes its not a typo. Since it is a stream from given array:

#( a ; b ; c ; ) readStream

stream peek at some moment could answer #; symbol.

perhaps i should write it like #';' ?
but why it considered invalid?


> Cheers,
> Henry
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.