[Vm-dev] Pharo/Squeak versions (using CogVM?) fail immediately when executed on AMD Athlon XP

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Osl,

   follow the instructions in
http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/build.win32x86/HowToBuild
but change the Makefiles (e.g. build.win32x86/squeak.cog.v3/Makefile) to
not provide the "-msse2" flag.  e.g. the lione

CFLAGS:= $(INCLUDEPATH) -msse2 -ggdb2 -mwindows -mthreads -mno-cygwin
-mwin32 \
    -mno-rtd -mms-bitfields -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args $(OFLAGS)
$(NOBUILTIN)

needs to read

CFLAGS:= $(INCLUDEPATH) -ggdb2 -mwindows -mthreads -mno-cygwin -mwin32 \
    -mno-rtd -mms-bitfields -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args $(OFLAGS)
$(NOBUILTIN)

But an Athlon is 15 years old now and very sloooooow.  You could pick up a
modern machine very cheaply. Can you not upgrade your hardware?

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:25 PM, oslsachem <oslsachem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This confirms what was already reported at:
>
> http://forum.world.st/Why-won-t-my-Pharo-download-run-td4719810.html
>
> Apparently, the problem would be just dependent on the underlying
> hardware and not the operating system and, as suggested there, could
> be related to unsupported CPU instructions.
>
> This has been more recently suggested here too:
>
>
> http://forum.world.st/Re-squeak-dev-Cog-VM-on-older-architecture-td4784506.html
>
> I am trying to learn Smalltalk and the book "Deep into Pharo"
> apparently requires a minimum Pharo version of at least 2.0.
>
> Could someone provide a binary download of the current version of
> Pharo VM for Windows without SSE2 support?
>
> If that's not possible, what would be the simplest way to build the VM
> in Windows without SSE2 support?
>
>
> Operating systems tested on the problematic machine:
>
> Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3
>
> Knoppix 7.0 Linux Kernel 3.4.9 (LiveCD)
>
>
> Last versions that worked:
>
> Pharo-1.2.1-OneClick.zip
> Squeak-4.4-All-in-One.zip
>
>
> Next versions no longer work:
>
> Pharo-1.3-OneClick.zip
> Squeak-4.5-All-in-One.zip
>
>
>
> Result in Windows XP:
>
> Brings up the Error Report dialog box (with the 'Send Error Report' button)
> I have attached a Dr. Watson report of the error both for Pharo and Squeak.
>
>
> Result in Knoppix:
>
> Running script 'Pharo.sh' or 'Squeak.sh' from a terminal just returns
> 'Illegal Instruction'
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>     Osl
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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