[Vm-dev] building on a mac

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Ben,

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> >     first what's the rationale for building them internally?  The
> current SSL plugins are external and there are advantages to them being
> external.
>
> Unikernels *may* require to static link everything.  That would be
> easiest for a single compiled application, except since we need to
> pass an image to the vm we may need a file system anyway, in which was
> dynamic loading may be okay.  Except again (much later), if a VM can
> request the image through the hypervisor from a backend driver, static
> compilation may allow the file system drivers to be culled from the
> unikernel.
>

Agreed, but unikernels have a different usage profile from normal VMs where
we'd like to maintain flexibility.


> cheers -ben
>
> > Second, to build internal ones (on mac, in e.g.
> build.macos32x86/squeak.cog.spur) you must
> > a) edit plugins.int to include the plugins and plugins.ext to exclude
> the plugins
> > b) run Xcode on the SqueakCogSpur32x86.xcodeproj (open
> SqueakCogSpur32x86.xcodeproj), and add both the relevant generated code
> under src/plugins/*, and any support files from platforms/Cross/plugins/*
> or platforms/iOS/plugins/*
> > c) use miosvm to build the VM
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Robert Withers <
> robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, John, that’s great now. Thank you, I ran CocoaFast and tested
> Crypto and SecureSession. They pass (with perf tweaking).
> >>
> >> Now I would like to build with the cryptoPlugins internal. What should
> I do to build those?
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >> On Dec 15, 2015, at 7:10 PM, John McIntosh <
> johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Update your SVN tree
> >>
> >> /Cog/build.macos32x86/squeak.cog.spur
> >>
> >>
> >> invoke
> >> ./miosvm -A
> >>
> >>
> >> Should build
> >> CocoaAssert.app
> >> CocoaDebug.app
> >> CocoaFast.app
> >>
> >> in that directory.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Robert Withers <
> robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks everyone. I used this approach and grabbed the cog source and
> build the vm. The problem is I don't know how to run it nor where it is.
> >>>
> >>> I then went into image and built a Spur image. I now want to run the
> CogSpur.app with that image to generate a vm, but once again I don't know
> how to run an app. Could you point the way, please?
> >>>
> >>> robert
> >>>
> >>> On 12/15/2015 01:38 PM, johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> You should be able to build the
> http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak/trunk/platforms/iOS/vm/SqueakPureObjc.xcodeproj
> >>>
> >>> Using the current Mac OS and Xcode
> >>>
> >>> Otherwise for cog see
> >>>
> http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak/branches/Cog/build.macos32x86/squeak.cog.spur/makeiosvm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Robert Withers <
> robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there a page describing how to setup xcode and gcc and build on a
> mac? thanks.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> . .. .. ^,^ best, robert
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> . .. .. ^,^ best, robert
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> ===========================================================================
> >> John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
> >>
> ===========================================================================
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _,,,^..^,,,_
> > best, Eliot
> >
>



-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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