On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On 15 Jun 2016, at 00:40, Petr Fischer <petr.fischer@me.com> wrote:

Hello, trying to install Pharo on my FreeBSD (11-CURRENT 64bit) with no luck :(

Facts:

1) I can run Linux (even 64bit Linux ELF) binaries on FreeBSD

interesting, I didn’t know.

2) but I can't use precompiled Linux 32binaries from Pharo.org, because there is no 32libs (32bit linux libs) support on 64bit FreeBSD

Maybe for a few months until the Image is ready for 64-bit you could run Pharo on 32bit FreeBSD with 32bit linux libs ?? cheers -ben

mmm… but you still need 32bits binaries to run Pharo.

3) tried build from https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm - no luck, because newImage script downloads 5.0 image and Linux VM (!) for intermediate VMMaker build (I can't build Pharo without working Pharo)

one possibility is to used the pre-generated sources: http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/spur/

4) tried latest prebuild 64 bit Cog Spur Linux VM from http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/downloads/ (cogspur64linuxht) - no luck - I don't know what the "squeak" start SH script is doing and it's intended for Linux

this will not work because:

1) you are downloading a 64bits vm, then you need a 64bits image: http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo-64.zip 2) since is 64bits who is work in progress it will still have some important problems (missing plugins, missing UFFI correct implementation, etc.) 3) I also don’t know what the “ht” part means…

Is actual build documentation for latest 64 bit Cog-Spur-something-something-VM somewhere?

Will be FFI (New-Native-something-something-FFI) working fine under FreeBSD (another unix), or will be some low-level core C porting needed?

once UFFI it works in 64bits, there is no reason why it will not work on FreeBSD

I can help with adapting build scrits also for FreeBSD - this OS is small, fast, robust and secure (there is ZFS, Jails for isolation, everything is simple etc etc) - perfect for running Pharo images on server side - I really like this combo (BSD+Smalltalk).

is not a problem (for now) of scripts… the problem is that you are trying to build a 64bits environment and we are not yet there. Pharo is still 32bits…

now, I’m working on this and it should be ready in a couple of months, but for now you are more or less restricted to two options:

1) install 32bits dependences 2) use the *very experimental* 64bits image along with Eliot 64bits spur, who should be this one: http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/latest/cogspur64linux-16.21.3732.tg...

Thanks, Petr Fischer

cheers! Esteban