I guess you're aware of Tim Rowledge's work...
http://forum.world.st/New-faster-RISC-OS-Squeak-td4668157.html
http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/
cheers -ben
Nick Ager wrote:
> Hi Sven and others,
>
> I've attached a screen shot of Pharo 20623.image running on the Raspberry
> Pi - I'd connected through a VNC session into my Mac. The image is almost
> unusably slow - I don't know if the problem lays in the graphical
> performance + VNC rather than the bytecode execution. tinyBenchmarks give:
>
> 0 tinyBenchmarks '10471204 bytecodes/sec; 307552 sends/sec'
>
> I came across a "PrimitiveFailed" walk-back from NativeBoost
> class>>#isEnabled and just commented out the primitive call and instead
> returned false. I guess this is probably as the VM sources I have date back
> to April/May so probably aren't completely compatible with 2.0.
>
> I've shared my Raspberry Pi build folder "result" on dropbox, which
> contains the StackVM executable built on the Pi:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cnta1hjoo7ptv1j/CELvuMjIRl
>
> I haven't tried installing the built StackVM onto a clean Pi distribution
> so don't know if any of the packages I installed during the build process
> will also be required for executing the StackVM - don't complain too loudly
> if just copying the contents from dropbox doesn't work directly on your Pi.
>
> I found some more notes I made while trying to compile the VM - though
> reading them back they seem more like the ramblings of a mad man and I'm
> sure the problems I ran into compiling the StackVM will be sorted by now:
>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZIzvTmV4zkYrFgOdAzfZzC35iMAqI2jc-44XQO9wSwc/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Also note that Pharo1.2.1 works with the VM used for Scratch in the
> Raspberry Pi distribution - without the need to build your own VM.
>
> Sorry I don't have many free cycles to support, but hope this might help
> someone to create a "blessed" Raspberry Pi Pharo VM
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2 October 2013 12:47, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> On 02 Oct 2013, at 11:51, Nick Ager <nick.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I managed to compile a StackVM on the raspberry Pi - a couple of months
>>>
>> ago - though I haven't tried with the latest StackVM source. I meant to
>> write it up, but life got in the way I'm afraid.
>>
>> What you did (and I can't) is indeed what should be done: recompile
>> locally ;-)
>>
>> So the conclusion is that it worked and that you can now run Pharo 2.0
>> (and presumable 3.0) as well ?
>>
>> That would be excellent and important news ! And the best short term
>> solution.
>>
>> Either you (but you lack time) or somebody else who feels at home with
>> this stuff should redo your steps and produce the actual VM, so that us
>> weak high-level programmers can have our Pharo and play ;-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sven
>>
>>
>>> The procedure I took was:
>>> * From a PC running Pharo install VMMaker packages (I found it was
>>>
>> easiest to run under a Linux (eg Ubuntu) to match the PIs OS.
>>
>>> * Export the StackVM source
>>> * Install the build tools on the raspberry Pi
>>> * Copy exported StackVM source (need to ensure it is copied to exactly
>>>
>> the same place, eg /home/nick/build)
>>
>>> * Build and test with Pharo2.0.image
>>>
>>> I choose to build on the Raspberry Pi as in my experience setting up a
>>>
>> reliable cross-compiling environment can take days.
>>
>>> Here are some notes I made at the time:
>>>
>>> On the raspberry PI:
>>> # install build tools
>>> sudo apt-get install gcc g++ cmake
>>>
>>> # dependencies for vm plugins
>>> sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libssl-dev libfreetype6-dev
>>>
>> libgl1-mesa-dev
>>
>>> sudo apt-get install build-essential
>>>
>>> # to fix:
>>> # /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lSM
>>> #/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lICE
>>> # create the following links in: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/
>>>
>>> sudo ln -s libSM.so.6 libSM.so
>>> sudo ln -s libICE.so.6 libICE.so
>>>
>>> Once the source is installed:
>>>
>>> chmod +x platforms/unix/config/version
>>> chmod +x platforms/unix/config/verstamp
>>>
>>> At the time I had to patch a couple of files, but that might have
>>>
>> changed with later versions of the StackVM source. My notes say I modified
>> the following, though don't indicate what I changed:
>>
>>> platforms/Cross/vm/sqAtomicOps.h
>>> platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixITimerHeartbeat.c
>>> platforms/unix/vm/vmVersionInfo.h
>>> src/vm/gcc3x-interp.c
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 October 2013 10:31, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goub...@cea.fr> wrote:
>>> Ok, thanks for the info, Sven.
>>>
>>> Thierry
>>>
>>> Le 02/10/2013 11:06, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :
>>>
>>> Thierry,
>>>
>>> On 02 Oct 2013, at 10:14, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goub...@cea.fr>
>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to know if it is possible to run a version of pharo, recent
>>>
>> if possible, on the Raspberry Pi?
>>
>>> I know that there is a squeak vm on Raspian (Debian for the RaspberryPi)
>>>
>> but it doesn't load recent pharo images.
>>
>>> Using the VM that comes with Raspbian, you can run Pharo 1.4.
>>> Pharo 2.0 requires additional VM support.
>>>
>>> Sven
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Thierry
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