On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello list!
I was wondering, are you going to provide a 64-bit OneClick package any time soon? When and what does that depend on?
mmm not sure. Compile the VM in 64 bits is not that complicated. Problem is that some plugins do not work with 64 bits VM, like FFI.
If not, how do I go about building my own 64-bit image on linux?
I think we already tried. Maybe it was using SystemTracer. For example, here is a 64 bits image: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/26274/PharoCore64-1.1-11196-UNSTABL... Notice that when using VM + image in 64 bits right now, we are NOT taking advantage of all its 64 bits. I mean, you may be able to make it work out of the box in a 64 bits machine/OS but that doesn't mean that the VM + image is using really using the 64. Maybe 32 bits of them are zero ;) Anyway, at some point in the future, we will have real 64 bits vm, a new object format/header, etc. But not sure it will be "soon". Cheers -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com