[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] FFI and current images/VMs

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 14:50:51 UTC 2017


No objection at all if the All-In-One bundle contains a MSwindows VM
which works fine for FFI.

Thank you Chris for testing and reporting the results!

BTW could the process which generates the all-in-one-bundles be restarted?

http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/

--Hannes

On 4/21/17, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:57 PM Chris Cunningham
>> <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Over the last week, I've been trying to build a new image on the latest
>>> trunk, which for my purposes needs to include ODBC, and until just
>>> recently, I've been failing.
>>>
>>> After rooting around a bit, I finally found that the base trunk image I
>>> was using (from this location: http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ ) seems
>>> to all be based off of this VM:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>  My previous image that I was porting from is:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>> which worked fine calling out FFI/ODBC.
>>> After trying many changes (looking at 64 bit image, 32 bit image, other
>>> fumbling around), I finally tracked down a current VM from
>>> https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files
>>> This version:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>> seems to work just fine with FFI (at leat, it runs the ODBC code without
>>> a hitch).  Even in the 64 bit version.
>>>
>>> I've sent this message for a few reasons:
>>> 1 - for my future self, to remember where the link is for the most
>>> current VM's (I can't find a link to it elsewhere outside of the email
>>> archives)
>>>
>>
>> I've added the link to the vm section at: http://squeak.org/downloads/
>>
>>
>>> 2 - for anyone else having FFI issues
>>> 3 - as a subtle request to eventually update the stable, blessed version
>>> of the VMs that are used in the bleeding edge Image archives, so that
>>> they
>>> work better with less hassle.
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid we still don't have a good release process in place.
>> However, I'm happy to update the vm used for the Squeak trunk bundles
>> with
>> a current bleeding edge vm if no one objects.
>>
>
> Sounds good to me.  Recent changes have been bug fixes or performance
> improvements anyway.
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>> Fabio
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> cbc
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>


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