Hello,

About the FreeBSD VM, Holger Freyther worked on it so he's the best person to answer. I think some people used it and it was at least partially working.

About your NativeBoost bug on openSolaris, ��need more information:

- Can you confirm that you use an intel processor on your openSolaris machine ? I assume that yes but I ask because solaris were typically running on other processors. NativeBoost, as of today, works only with intel processor.

- Do you build the Cog VM or Stack VM ? I mean PharoVMBuild or PharoSVMBuild ? I think the PharoSVMBuild does not include NativeBoost by default, that may be your problem. There's a fix somewhere...

- What are you doing with NativeBoost ? Is it FFI only or are you generating and executing hand-written machine code ? If it's FFI only, there might be alternative available working more or less out of the box.

Best,

Clement

2015-03-10 20:26 GMT+01:00 Andreas Wacknitz <a.wacknitz@gmx.de>:

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the status of the PharoVM for UNIX operating systems, especially FreeBSD.
As far as I have seen in the actual sources there is some support for FreeBSD available but for me it��s not clear whether it��s only partial or complete.
For me it looks more partial (eg. there are no build instructions for FreeBSD and the default offers are only Mac, Linux and Windows),
I haven��t tried to build it yet but I am thinking about to do that and want to get an idea about the efforts.

I have successfully build a PharoVM for openindiana (an OpenSolaris derivate). It runs both Pharo and Squeak images (at least partially, see below).
I bootstrapped this on my Mac and used what was already available low level.
Alas it has two problems until now:
�� 1. Sound is not working properly (just a single click when doing some sound output and then silence).
�� 2. NativeBoost is not working (atm it is based on the Linux version of NativeBoost).

As my time is very limited (doing everything in my spare time) I would like to get NativeBoost working on openindiana first, and then trying to build an
actual PharoVM for FreeBSD. Therefore the question regarding the status of PharoVM for FreeBSD.
Of course any hints where to start with the NativeBoost problem would be highly appreciated :)

Regards
Andreas