[Vm-dev] Compiling the windows 32 bits vm

[Ben Coman]

On 6 April 2018 at 14:23, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 6 April 2018 at 06:38, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 April 2018 at 04:58, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Cyril,
>>>
>>> On 5 April 2018 at 22:54, Cyril Ferlicot D <cyril at ferlicot.me> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I tried using it on a recent Pharo 7 image and it worked pretty fine. I
>>>> just got a message saying the vm it too old but I suppose it must be
>>>> because during the automatic oscogvm builds some metadata are added are
>>>> something like that.
>>>
>>>
>>> You need to run scripts/updateSCCSVersions once after checkout.  That
>>> installs the git hooks to keep the version info up to date.
>>
>> I know this is clearly stated in the README.md,
>> but it seems to catch out many (an me multiple times, duh!)
>>
>> Someone mentioned adding it as a step to the makefile.
>> That sounds like a good idea.
>
> Right, that was Eliot (from memory).
>
> On the rare occasion I build a windows vm it's in a virtualbox, and
> updateSCCSVersions is slow, so we'd only want to invoke it if
> required.
>
> updateSCCSVersions creates three files which are the git hooks to
> update the version info.  I think the absence / presence of those can
> be used to determine whether to run updateSCCSVersions.

Agreed.

cheers -ben