On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Fabio Niephaus lists@fniephaus.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:57 PM Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb@gmail.com wrote:
Over the last week, I've been trying to build a new image on the latest trunk, which for my purposes needs to include ODBC, and until just recently, I've been failing.
After rooting around a bit, I finally found that the base trunk image I was using (from this location: http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ ) seems to all be based off of this VM: [image: image.png] My previous image that I was porting from is: [image: image.png] which worked fine calling out FFI/ODBC. After trying many changes (looking at 64 bit image, 32 bit image, other fumbling around), I finally tracked down a current VM from https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files This version: [image: image.png] seems to work just fine with FFI (at leat, it runs the ODBC code without a hitch). Even in the 64 bit version.
I've sent this message for a few reasons: 1 - for my future self, to remember where the link is for the most current VM's (I can't find a link to it elsewhere outside of the email archives)
I've added the link to the vm section at: http://squeak.org/downloads/
2 - for anyone else having FFI issues 3 - as a subtle request to eventually update the stable, blessed version of the VMs that are used in the bleeding edge Image archives, so that they work better with less hassle.
I'm afraid we still don't have a good release process in place. However, I'm happy to update the vm used for the Squeak trunk bundles with a current bleeding edge vm if no one objects.
Sounds good to me. Recent changes have been bug fixes or performance improvements anyway.
Best, Fabio
Thanks, cbc
