[Vm-dev] How to run a Mac Interpreter VM without sound?

[David T. Lewis]

I don't know of any reason that it shouldn't work, but I don't have a Mac
and I can't say what the issue is.

My suggestion was to narrow down the problem by checking if a pre-built VM
from squeakvm.org/unix works. If the pre-built VM works, but your locally
compiled VM does not work, then you are probably dealing with some kind of
issue related to your development environment. If so, I'm sure we could
narrow the problem down from there.

Dave


>
> I am using a Unix VM on a Mac. I guess that's not the right thing to
> do, despite OS X being a Unix-like system? I don't care about visuals
> or audio: I'm only interested in interacting with the image through
> stdout/stdin so had thought that wouldn't be a problem.
>
> I can _build_ the VM just fine. I just can't _run_ it, because
> squeak.sh demands a sound driver, and I don't know why it can't find
> one of the many that were built.
>
> frank
>
> On 8 September 2014 15:30, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like you are compiling a Unix VM on Mac. I can't tell if this
>> is
>> a build problem or a runtime problem. Does the official VM from
>> http://squeakvm.org/unix/ work on your build slave machine?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>>
>>> The OS X (10.8.0) build slave I use for CI fails to run any
>>> interpreter-vm-using commands because of sound issues. If I use the
>>> arguments "-vm-display-null" it says
>>>
>>> squeak: could not find any sound driver
>>>
>>> and aborts.
>>>
>>> If I use the arguments "-vm-display-null -vm-sound-null" it says
>>>
>>> could not find module vm-sound-null
>>>
>>> and aborts.
>>>
>>> This is a VM that's freshly baked, from the standard
>>> download-configure-make dance. An ls in the bld/ directory shows a
>>> wealth of sound plugins: vm-sound-null, vm-sound-MacOSX, and so on.
>>> Using any of these plugins fails, all because the VM "could not find
>>> module vm-sound-FOO".
>>>
>>> -help says
>>>
>>> Available drivers:
>>>   vm-display-custom
>>>   vm-display-null
>>>
>>> and you'll note the absence of any sound drivers there. The sad thing
>>> is I don't even _care_ about sound. The machine runs CI jobs only. If
>>> I could do without random Beep sounds, I'd be even happier.
>>>
>>> So how do I find out what incantation I need to chant while
>>> sacrificing the chicken, if I want to run an Interpreter VM on OSX?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>
>>
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