On 23 Feb 2016, at 19:05, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@gmail.com <mailto:nicolaihess@gmail.com>> wrote:

2016-02-23 13:35 GMT+01:00 Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com <mailto:i.uhnak@gmail.com>>: Hi,

is it possible to have fully self-contained Linux VM?

Right now if you want to use Pharo on Linux you have to install some libraries directly in the system, which isn't particularly user-friendly.

I know that for example libcairo (needed by Roassal) has hard-coded library paths, but maybe this can be changed so the library can be in the zip.

Could something like that be done also for the remaining lib32 libraries required to run the VM?

Even if it had to be a special bundle for each linux distribution.

If you have a 64Bit linux, you may to have include *a lot* of extra libraries. libcairo (for 32Bit) alone is not enough. You need all the other 32Bit libraries, cairo depends on.

Not with the 64-bit VM ;-)

ans as far as I can foresee, 64bits vms/images will be ready in a couple of months… so do not despair :) Esteban

Thanks, Peter

-- _,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

On 23-02-16 13:35, Peter Uhnák wrote:

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Could something like that be done also for the remaining lib32 libraries required to run the VM?

Sure. And then you need to release updates whenever one of the underlying lib32 libraries changes. OpenSSL comes to mind.

But that would be true for windows & mac VMs, which unlike linux already are self-contained (including OpenSSL). So I infer it should be possible with some minor changes. :) Thanks, Peter