[Vm-dev] News about bundling VM (Mac users mostly)

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> there
> i spent whole day with Esteban, testing & fixing new CMake
> configuration on Jenkins,
> to integrate the changes i made for bundling VM with 3-rd party
> libraries ( see [1] ).
>
> We finally made it working, as you can see in hot-backed build here:
> https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/job/Cog-Mac-Cocoa-Esteban/72/
>
> So, in a few days we will update the blessed branch to also use new
> cmake configuration(s).
> (right now the jobs at [2],[3] still using old configs)
>
> Some details about changes:
>  - changed the FT2Plugin to link dynamically with freetype library on
> Mac, instead of statically
>  - changed the VM bundle directory layout: now all external plugins
> and dlls are stored in Contents/Plugins subdir,
>  instead of Contents/Resources as before (see screenshot attached)
>

nice change :)


>  - changed the external plugin search logic to search this Plugins dir
> instead of Resources
>  - by default, all Mac VM's will be bundled with own version of
> Freetype dynamic library,
>  - also , i will bundle NBCog VMs with cairo library by default (so,
> no extra installation is required)
>
> If you want to reproduce build by own, note that on OSX 10.6. tar does
> not supports 7z compression, you should install it:
>  port install gnutar
>  port install xz
>  ln -s /opt/local/bin/gnutar /opt/local/bin/tar
> (and make sure that /opt/local/bin is first in your PATH variable)
>
> On Lion (10.7) no extra effort is required.
>
>
Also very cool!

Thanks guys



>
> [1]
> http://computeradventures.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/bundling-vm-with-thirdparty-libraries/
> [2] https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Cog/job/Cog-VM/
> [3] https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/NativeBoost/
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
>


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