Hi,
I wanted to learn Smalltalk and wanted to go for Squeak. My OS is
FreeBSD/amd64. I first wanted to install the FreeBSD Port; however, it
stopped mentioning it was for i386 only and I was running amd64. So I
tried to download the FreeBSD/i386 package from
http://squeak.org/Download/ and installed according to the docs.
However, that Squeak ran into a Trap 6; it seems it was unable to
connect to X11 (I think it's because my X11-Libs are 64-bit only and so
the 32-bit Squeak-X11-so might have run into trouble).
So I decided to do it the hard way and to compile for FreeBSD/amd64 on
my own. I searched for the docs I found on squeak.org and squekvm.org,
and tried to work as closely as possible to this doc:
http://squeakvm.org/unix/. I checked the sources out using Subversion,
configured and compiled. Ran into some Problems with missing
Include-Directories in Makefiles, configured again by adding my local
Include-Dirs, comoiled again, ran into an error that the
ExtendedClipboard's Plugins Makefiles was missing my local Include,
added that manually -- and finally had a seemingly working VM.
However, I now need "the Image" :-(
I found some docs on a "VMMmaker" which can be run by running squeak and
passing it the name of and .image-File. So I did a "find . -name
\*.image -print" in the platforms-Directory of the Sources I checked out
- however, there is no .image-File there :-(
Another doc mentioned to download a "full" Image; however, I only found
"basic" ones?
So, I tried to download
http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.zip
unzipped that into an empty Directory and ran "squeak
Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic" - and squeak did start, well, it was
complaining about missing sources, so I have to solve that.
However, in the "platforms/unix/misc/" Directory there are some Files
plus Directions that I'd like to adhere, but beeing a complete noob have
no idea how.
So, could somebody please hint me at how to get "the correct" Image for
64bit FreebSD/amd64? Or is the Downloaded one OK? If it is, however,
wouldn't I need a 3.10.5 Image instead of 3.10.2?
Would really be nice if somebody could help me - esp. because it seems
to me that many of the Docs I found are a bit outdated and sent me into
wrong directions I think...
MTIA!
Cheers,
_ralf_
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