Let me try asking this another way. Will someone who knows how to do Pharo development on Windows please tell me how to organize my files so that Pharo works? Obviously, leaving the files where they are in the unzipped install package does not work. How should I organize things so that Pharo can actually save an image, shut down, and then open it again? Where should I put the VM relative to the other files. How is the initial current directory chosen? I've been developing in Squeak for more than 10 years. I now about images and changes and sources and Monticello and so on. I just know nothing at all about Windoze. How can it be so hard? Andrew -----Original Message----- From: pharo-users-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Andrew Black Sent: 21 January 2011 14:04 To: Pharo Users (pharo-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr) Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo on Windows
How do I re-launch my Pharo image?
squeak.exe C:/pathToMyImage/myImage.image
or just copy your image to whereever you see fit and then run squeak.exe and when it asks which image to open, choose the one you prefer.
I tried that. The effect is the same as double-clicking the image file: it starts up the VM, which then tries to read the image as a UTF8 file, and gives me a walkback. If I just launch the VM, it does NOT ask me which image to open. It opens Paharo.app\Contents\Resources\Pharo.image, and complains that it can't write the corresponding Pharo.changes. This is true even though I have moved the VM into another place on my disk (along with the sources and the image + changes files that I want it to open). There is nothing wrong with the image file itself, btw. I copied it to my Mac on a memory stick, and was able to launch it and work in it for most of yesterday. I'm at my wits end with this. Am I the first person to try the COG VM on Windoze? Andrew