Squeak on FreeBSD 6.0

Hi!

I curious if someone managed to run Squeak on a FreeBSD 6.0. I
downloaded the VM from the main site, but that install is for ver 4.x. I
installed it anyway, but get a error message that libutil.so not found
or something in that manner.

Elod

Hi!
I'm squeak user using FreeBSD.

At Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:40:34 +0100,
Elod Kironsky <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I curious if someone managed to run Squeak on a FreeBSD 6.0. I
> downloaded the VM from the main site, but that install is for ver 4.x. I
> installed it anyway, but get a error message that libutil.so not found
> or something in that manner.

I try to run it, too. But I don't accomplish it.

First, you must install compat4x library (misc/compat4x).
If you install it, but squeakland.org version VM for 4.8R can't run in
my FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE environment.
I think it has some problem at plugin loading part.

By the way, how about using ports system?
Current FreeBSD lang/squeak port use 3.6-3 VM.

But I have 3.7-7 VM version of lang/squeak port for myself;-)

It add some improvement below:
- Better FFI plugin support
- Better web browser plugin
- XIM support (mainly for Japanese people)

If you try it, I'll send you.

Thanks.
--
Takeshi MUTOH <[hidden email]>

Hi!

>By the way, how about using ports system?
>Current FreeBSD lang/squeak port use 3.6-3 VM.
>
>  
>
Oh, I thought that the VM at squeak.org must be the latest version.
Somebody should
add a link to that port I think.
I would be very interested in your VM port, please send a link or send
it in
attachment.

Thanks,

Elod

Hi!!

At Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:36:32 +0100,
Elod Kironsky <[hidden email]> wrote:
Please try
        http://qml.610t.org/squeak/2.files/squeak-200602271.tar.gz

How to use:
0. Install FreeBSD standard ports tree.
1. Extract archive somewhere and go to squeak directory.
        > tar zxvf squeak-200602271.tar.gz
        > cd squeak/
2. Compile.
        > make
3. Install.
        > make install

Any comments are welcome.

Enjoy!!
--
Takeshi MUTOH <[hidden email]>

Many thanks, I will try it out.

Elod

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:36:32PM +0100, Elod Kironsky wrote:
> Oh, I thought that the VM at squeak.org must be the latest version.
> Somebody should
> add a link to that port I think.

I'm not sure what the links at squeak.org point to, but as far as
I know the most up-to-date Unix VMs are at <http://squeakvm.org/unix/>.
There are binaries for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, as well as
source if you prefer to compile it yourself.

Dave

On 7-Mar-06, at 3:43 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
The problem here is that the VMs on squeakvm.org are hopelessly out  
of date. The 'recommended' source packages are equally out of date.  
The *only* mainstream VMs that are built with up to date sources are  
the OSX and RISC OS ones and I know that almost nobody cares about  
the latter.

For goodness' sake, *3.7* based VMs? That's well before the 64-bit  
clean related cleanups for example which means that the code is  
getting tested on only a small fraction of machines.


tim
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tim Rowledge wrote:

> The problem here is that the VMs on squeakvm.org are hopelessly out
> of date. The 'recommended' source packages are equally out of date.
> The *only* mainstream VMs that are built with up to date sources are
> the OSX and RISC OS ones and I know that almost nobody cares about
> the latter.
>
> For goodness' sake, *3.7* based VMs? That's well before the 64-bit
> clean related cleanups for example which means that the code is
> getting tested on only a small fraction of machines.


I agree, but what's the alternative?

Must we all fetch the tree from the respository and build whatever
today's revision happens to be?

OK,perhaps I'm a bit cynical, but the last time I tried to build the
tree took 8 hours of fiddling, as opposed to under 5 minutes to compile
and install the -3.7 .tar.gz sources.  I really hope things are better
these days, since we're rapidly getting to the point where we *need* a
64-bit VM (our datasets are now beyond 1500MB).  So if you need anyone
to run some tests on a Solaris/SPARC/64-bit VM, just say the word...

Andrew.