On 7 November 2013 14:18, PBK Research <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello! > > I have a problem with running Pharo 2.0 on one of my machines. I have two > machines, both running Windows XP with SP3. On one of them I have a > successful load of Pharo (actually it's a distribution of the Moose system, > but that is just an application built on Pharo 2.0). This loads > successfully when I double click on pharo.exe. On the other machine, the > same action produces an immediate message: 'Pharo.exe has encountered a > problem and needs to close'. Just in case this was some problem with Moose, > I have just downloaded the latest one-click installation of Pharo 2.0 for > Windows. This displays exactly the same behaviour - an immediate fail when > I try to start it. > > I have tried to work out what may be different between the two machines. > The one which will run Pharo has an Intel Celeron processor, the other an > AMD Athlon XP (yes, they are both pretty ancient!), but I can't see why > that should make any difference. The one curious thing is that Windows > Explorer displays the type of the Pharo2.0.image file as 'Squeak image > file'. There is an old version of Squeak installed on that machine; could > that have any effect? > > I am a bit flummoxed by all this. Does anyone have any suggestions about > how to diagnose the problem? > > If you using too old VM , it simply does not supports an image format, which pharo 2.0 uses. But there could be different reasons.. a first step towards to solution is to use VM for pharo, which we maintain and use.. > Many thanks > > Peter Kenny > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
