Hi all, Has anybody ever tried to get Smalltalk on a NAS box ? NAS are more and more present around me and I can't help thinking it would be a great smalltalk deployment option. Out of the box, PHP application can run. I think one problem is the multitude of architecture and that each VM needs to be compiled specifically. As a side note, I think we should focus on Synology and Qnap at starts. Let's take a particular example. I have a synology NAS (DSM 411+II) wich is based on an ATOM 510 (64bits if I'm correct) [2]. There's a guide on how to install third party application (from the raw setup to the app packaging) [3].
From what I understand of the compilation process [3], the first step is to download DSM Tool Chain [4] and to use it to compile sources on a classic linux station. Then, once compiled, you move the executable to the NAS and it should work... Problem is I'm a bit lost there because, first I never compiled a VM and second, this needs some manipulations on the configure file (which I'm not at ease with).
So, is there a brave experienced soul that could have a try compiling a Cog VM with this toolchain (my NAS is a pineview processor - D525)? Also, I think this would be even more pertinent with gemstone. I tried the install.sh but got quickly blocked and I'm not sure this gives a single executable anyway. But if the gestone guys wants to have a try... :) I can give ssh access for people interested if necessary. TIA, Cédrick [1] http://blog.synology.com/blog/?p=1070 [2] http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have [3] http://download.synology.com/download/ds/userguide/Synology%20NAS%20Server%2... [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files/