Maybe FileLocator can help ?

on macOS

FileLocator vmDirectory pathString.
"'/Users/sven/Develop/Pharo/Pharo-Daily/2019-01-24/pharo-vm'"

FileLocator vmBinary pathString.
"'/Users/sven/Develop/Pharo/Pharo-Daily/2019-01-24/pharo-vm/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Pharo'"

on Linux

$ ../bin/pharo Pharo.image eval 'FileLocator vmDirectory pathString'
'/home/t3/pharo/bin/pharo-vm'

$ ../bin/pharo Pharo.image eval 'FileLocator vmBinary pathString'
'/home/t3/pharo/bin/pharo-vm/pharo'

> On 25 Jan 2019, at 18:25, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Nicolas,
>
> Is it as simple as pharo/*, or could there be multiple directories created and I need to pick the right one?
>
> Dale
>
> On 1/25/19 12:48 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>> I'm afraid it also depends on the overly complex rules burried deep inside the VM...
>> It would be a good thing to try and document it.
>> And if we can't reasonably document it, then we might want to open an issue on opensmalltalk.
>>
>> Le ven. 25 janv. 2019 �� 01:51, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com> a ��crit :
>> I am in the process of porting the GemStone-GCI[1] project to Pharo6.1
>> (32 bit) and Pharo7.0 (64 bit) and I'm curious what the naming
>> convention for the library directories are.
>>
>> For Pharo5.0 and earlier, I copied my 32 bit gemstone gci library files
>> (.so on linux) into the pharo-vm directory.
>>
>> For Pharo6.1 I just figured out that I need to copy the gci library
>> files into the pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-201806281256 directory ... at list
>> the libraries are found when I do so?
>>
>> I would like to be able to write a bash script that copies the gci
>> library files into the proper directory, but the directory for the
>> Pharo6.1 vm looks like some kind of magic number and I assume that
>> different builds of the 6.1 vm could have different names and possibly
>> even multiple directories under pharo-vm/lib/pharo/?
>>
>> I haven't looked at Pharo7.0 yet to see what it's pharo-vm directory
>> structure looks like...
>>
>> A pointer to where the naming conventions for these directories is
>> described for Pharo6.x, Pharo7.x and Pharo8.x would be greatly
>> appreciated ... would also be nice if the error message for the "module
>> not found" error could be a bit more descriptive as well ...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/GsDevKit/GemStone-GCI
>>
>>