2017-12-29 16:13 GMT+01:00 Andrei Stebakov <lisper...@gmail.com>: > Nicolai, the maximize/non-maximize trick worked! Thanks! I wonder if it's > an easy fix to put in Pharo. >
So it means that something in image is not initialised. It can be another bug of wrong startup order > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:22 AM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> > wrote: > >> I am using nssm because the service option is broken. >> >> The code seems to still be in the image but disabled (there are quite a >> few things like that actually). >> >> Phil >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, (cross posting vm-dev) >>> >>> nssm is nice - but requires additional tools. >>> >>> Since the days of Squeak the windows VM had the >>> >>> -service "ServiceName" >>> >>> option and one was able to run Squeak as a windows service out of the >>> box. >>> >>> See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/105 for details. >>> >>> This option allows to register/deregister with the windows service >>> manager and run >>> a headless image. >>> >>> I run a Squeak Wiki (Swiki/Comanche) since years with this and it is >>> very nice and stable. >>> >>> Unfortunately this is broken in recent Pharo VMs and so far Esteban or >>> others did not >>> have the time to look into this issue. Would be really nice if this >>> option could >>> be recovered in 2018. So one could easily deploy and run Seaside or >>> Teapot/Tealight >>> or Zinc/WebClient based web services on Windows. >>> >>> If we want to deploy Smalltalk based web applications or services on >>> Windows we >>> should support that. It will keep Windows administrators happy and we >>> would integrate with >>> the whole ecosystem (for instance you can start/stop a service using >>> Windows scripting for >>> doing backups, etc.) right out of the box. >>> >>> Bye >>> T. >>> >>> >>> >>> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Dezember 2017 um 11:36 Uhr >>> Von: "p...@highoctane.be" <p...@highoctane.be> >>> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> >>> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] Running headless on Windows >>> >>> If you want to run Pharo as a service, I have found nssm to be working >>> well. >>> https://nssm.cc >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> On Dec 29, 2017 09:25, "Nicolai Hess" <nicolaih...@gmail.com[mailto: >>> nicolaih...@gmail.com]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> 2017-12-29 3:07 GMT+01:00 Andrei Stebakov <lisper...@gmail.com[mailto:li >>> sper...@gmail.com]>: >>> Pierce, I tried all of those "no display" options, the result is the same >>> >>> >>> On Dec 28, 2017 8:37 PM, "Pierce Ng" <pie...@samadhiweb.com[mailto: >>> pie...@samadhiweb.com]> wrote:On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 04:58:39PM +0100, >>> Cyril Ferlicot D. wrote: >>> > On 12/27/2017 04:39 PM, Andrei Stebakov wrote: >>> > > When I run Pharo 6.1 with -- headless option on Windows, it executes >>> the >>> > > eval command as expected but during the execution (which lasts 4 >>> sec) it >>> > > opens the Pharo GUI. >>> > > Is it expected? I thought headless means that the whole execution >>> would >>> > > happen in the background >>> > >>> > I think that currently Pharo does not have a "real" headless. But I >>> > heard there was work on that part for Pharo 7. >>> >>> I know OP is talking about Windows... I've been running server >>> applications on >>> Linux without X11 with -vm-display-null and in-image RFBServer for >>> access to >>> Pharo over VNC. This works very well for me. >>> >>> I believe "real" headless means GUI is not run at all and therefore does >>> not >>> consume CPU cycles, which is very welcome. Meanwhile, maybe >>> -vm-display-null >>> works on Windows for scripting purposes? >>> >>> Pierce >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Andrei, >>> >>> can you try this: >>> >>> Open Pharo normal (no headless option). >>> Change the window size to "not-maximized" (eve if it is actually not >>> maximized, maximize it ones and change it back to "not-maximized") >>> Save and quit the image. >>> >>> After that, a call like >>> >>> pharo --headless pharo.image eval "DateAndTime now" >>> will write the output to the stdout file, without opening a window. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
