Problems with CogVM

> On 28 November 2012 22:07, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On 28-11-2012 19:05, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> On 28 November 2012 21:55, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> I'm usually running squeak using stackVM (which I compiled to suit my
>>>> needs). But I just crashed against an old problem. Yesterday I gave
>>>> Athens (pharo) a try. Pharo runs under CogVM and as I use Fedora x86_64
>>>> and this system is a ... about gcc -m32, I either use the cogvm that
>>>> comes along the distribution or I select one pre-built from Elliot.
>>>> Unecessary to say that I had all sorts of problems with NativeBoost not
>>>> being able to call the foreign libraries...
>>> NativeBoost won't work with VMs prebuilt from Eliot. Simply because those VMs
>>> don't have NB plugin and some small changes to VM itself to support
>>> native code in 'NB' way.
>> In Pharo I use Jenkins integrated cogvm with NB.
> ah.. ok. Just had to say in case if you unaware of it.
>
>>>> Then I decided to come back and try squeak with cogvm and I tried to
>>>> suit it to run OpenGL but it fails. I think it's impossible that I'm the
>>>> only poor mortal to have ever faced the problem of suiting FFI to
>>>> properly run Cog in a x86_64 architecture. Have someone dealt with this
>>>> problem???
>>> All Cog VMs are 32-bit.  That means that you can link dynamically only
>>> with 32-bit libraries.
>>>
>> I have all 32-bit libraries. System should work.
> Try starting VM using ptrace to see where/what it tries to load and
> why it failing.
>

> On 28 November 2012 22:25, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On 28-11-2012 19:18, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> On 28 November 2012 22:07, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> On 28-11-2012 19:05, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>> On 28 November 2012 21:55, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
>>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm usually running squeak using stackVM (which I compiled to suit my
>>>>>> needs). But I just crashed against an old problem. Yesterday I gave
>>>>>> Athens (pharo) a try. Pharo runs under CogVM and as I use Fedora x86_64
>>>>>> and this system is a ... about gcc -m32, I either use the cogvm that
>>>>>> comes along the distribution or I select one pre-built from Elliot.
>>>>>> Unecessary to say that I had all sorts of problems with NativeBoost not
>>>>>> being able to call the foreign libraries...
>>>>> NativeBoost won't work with VMs prebuilt from Eliot. Simply because those VMs
>>>>> don't have NB plugin and some small changes to VM itself to support
>>>>> native code in 'NB' way.
>>>> In Pharo I use Jenkins integrated cogvm with NB.
>>> ah.. ok. Just had to say in case if you unaware of it.
>>>
>>>>>> Then I decided to come back and try squeak with cogvm and I tried to
>>>>>> suit it to run OpenGL but it fails. I think it's impossible that I'm the
>>>>>> only poor mortal to have ever faced the problem of suiting FFI to
>>>>>> properly run Cog in a x86_64 architecture. Have someone dealt with this
>>>>>> problem???
>>>>> All Cog VMs are 32-bit.  That means that you can link dynamically only
>>>>> with 32-bit libraries.
>>>>>
>>>> I have all 32-bit libraries. System should work.
>>> Try starting VM using ptrace to see where/what it tries to load and
>>> why it failing.
>>>
>> I've attached the error log...
> this won't provide any clues, because VM hides what exactly happens inside and
> simply reports a failure.
> i don't remember what is utility name.. ptrace or strace..
> it dumps all system calls of running process,
> so you can see what it tries to do, look for calls to dlopen() in particular
>
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