On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:21:05AM +0100, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: > Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com> writes: > > I am a long time FreeBSD user. Right now an instance of my blog is running > > on Pharo 1.4 on CogVM on FreeBSD 8.x. > How did you build the Pharo VM?
Used to need to patch the source. Here's an old post from me: http://forum.world.st/Building-Cog-on-FreeBSD-td3072348.html. Patching is no longer needed. Periodically, I build from source from both Git and SVN repositories. However, recently I'm somewhat confused which Git-based version to use, so I build from the SVN-based source. Basically, over time, I settled on this script, based on my experimentation and reading stuff I found on the net: #!/bin/sh ../../platforms/unix/config/configure \ CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \ CFLAGS="-g -O -msse2 -DNDEBUG -DTIMER_HEARTBEAT=1 -DNO_VM_PROFILE=1 -DCOGMTVM=0 -DDEBUGVM=0 -DNOEXECINFO" \ --enable-mpg-mmx=no --enable-mpg-pthreads=no --without-npsqueak make There is some funny thing about the FFI: One particular version of the SqueakFFIPrims plugin works. But several other versions that I've built all fail. Also, NativeBoost doesn't work on FreeBSD. In terms of dlfcn.h constants such as RTLD_LAZY etc, FreeBSD is more like OSX than like Linux. (Or perhaps I should say OSX is like FreeBSD.) I have built a VM on FreeBSD in which "NativeBoost forCurrentPlatform" says "NativeBoostMac32" while "OSPlatform current" says "UnixPlatform" but the dynamic linking doesn't work yet. From reading assembly programming tutorials for FreeBSD, Linux and OSX, my current conjecture is around stack popping, but I've never done assembly programming for real on these Unixen, so this is just guesswork on my part. I hope NativeBoost will work on FreeBSD eventually. All the world's not just Linux, OSX and Windows. -- Pierce Ng http://samadhiweb.com/blog/
