On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4 March 2012 22:46, Jan van de Sandt <jvdsandt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the Pharo Jenkins server [1] there is a recent build of a VM with
> NativeBoost support for the Mac. But the Unix version is six months old and
> there is no Windows version.

The Unix one was not built because i forgot to set the upstream project, :)
so build doesn't triggers when everything else builds.
The Windows one, i was built manually on my machine, because we were lacking
windows slave for jenkins.
You can download windows VM from nativeboost project downloads page:
http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/downloads/list

I'm not happy with VM i built (Cog + NativeBoost Win32 Binaries (7 Feb, 2012) ).
I built the threaded VM, and besides the warning which pops up every
time you launch it,
i had couple crashes when simply loading MC packages.
I am still not sure what happens, and need to investigate, because the
other VM i built recently
on another windows machine (by installing everything from scratch)
behaves quite stable.

I would definitely treat the threaded VM as experimental for now. It is in development (stalled due to lack of time), bleeding edge and very much not ready for prime time. I used to use it regularly on Mac but then it started locking up. I plan to get back to it this year sometime, but right now it is "use at your own risk" and not something to inflict on the unwitting.

>
> Is this just a Jenkins issue and is NativeBoost working on Unix and Windows?
> Or are these platforms not working yet?
>

Everything is working. It is just jenkins.
I hope in following few days, after we deal with weird free space
issues on jenkins,
we can finally set up windows builds for vanilla vms as well as for nativeboost.

> Jan.
>
> [1] https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/NativeBoost/

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.