Hi Nicolai,

If you look at appveyor.yml configuration on
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/.appveyor.yml,
you will see that the pharo brand is not yet in the matrix.

It's because builds are based on cygwin, but as I understood, some library
used by some plugin required by pharo refuse to compile with cygwin. They
appear to work with mingw32.
Cygwin provides headers for legacy directx, some distribution of mingw32
did in the past, but it does not seem the case anymore.
Using the directx headers from Microsoft SDK is a problem. They are not
redistributable and can't be found anymore on the net (too old). We cannot
seriously base the builds on something so fragile (both technically and
legally) in the long term.

Also, the 64 bits VM does only work with clang, and we don't have anything
available as a 64bits Microsoft SDK... So pharo has to fix that too.

In the interim, you should look at
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/master/.appveyor.yml and
follow the scripts there.

I hope that Esteban will find time to resolve all these problems and have
pharo brand back on opensmalltalk-vm. I guess that any form of help is
welcome.

Nicolas


2017-03-11 8:33 GMT+01:00 Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com>:

> I still have problems building a vm on windows.
> can you give me some hints how to start ?
> I cloned the recent pharo-vm project,
> in opensmalltalk-vm\build.win32x86\pharo.cog.spur\
> run
> mvm
>
> But I got a couple of problems (mingw-32 compiler commands not found, I
> had to adjust the include path for finding directx header, missing variable
> replacement for git-versions).
> So I may miss some important steps.
> Is there a repository where I can clone the mingw environment used to
> build the win32-pharo-vm, the environment used on the build-server ?
>
> Thanks
> Nicolai
>
> 2017-02-04 1:50 GMT+01:00 Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> 2017-02-04 1:44 GMT+01:00 Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2017-01-23 8:59 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 22 Jan 2017, at 13:19, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017-01-22 10:21 GMT+01:00 Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe they're built from* https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm
>>>>> <https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm>* using travis and appveyor. On
>>>>> the gitbhub readme there are relevant links. All built artifacts are also
>>>>> kept on bintray for history.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> no, they aren’t :)
>>>> instead, they are built here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm
>>>>
>>>> (README still not updated)
>>>>
>>>
>>> what did changed ? I am not able to build the vm on windows anymore
>>> (something wrong with generating the generator.image, I'll now reset my
>>> local pharo-vm build directory and see if it works afterwards).
>>>
>>
>> see attached the stderr log :
>>
>> 'Errors in script loaded from u:\github\pharo-vm\scripts\LoadVMMaker.st'
>> [31mMessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "default:" is nil
>> [0mUndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #default:
>> BaseSoundSystem class>>initialize
>> MCMethodDefinition>>postloadOver:
>>
>> ....
>>
>>
>>> Are we still working with branch spur-64, or are we back on master ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Esteban
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Where are the latest Pharo-spur-vms (32bit) are built?
>>>>>> I don't see them on the build server, only the buildresults at
>>>>>> http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/linux/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The latest builds on the buildserver are from the last year only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nicolai
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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