On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:17:39PM +0100, barger wrote:
Thanks for your quick answer...
The 64 bit image requires a separate VM executable, which you need to build by generating sources with the "64 bit VM?" check box selected in VMMaker. This VM is required in order to run an image with 64 bit Smalltalk word size.
For do this i will need to solve all the chicken-egg problem. I first need to run on my 64bit Linux some system with at least net support ( 32 bit version fail on NetNameResolver and 64 bit on incopatible image )
You can generate the 64 bit sources for this with any existing 32 bit image and VM. If you run configure/make on a 32 bit machine, you get a VM for 64 bit images that runs on 32 bit hardware. If you run configure/make on a 64 bit machine, you get a VM for 64 bit imagse that runs on a 64 bit host.
Note that many plugins have not been updated for 64 bit VMs. Start with the bare minimum (BalloonEnginePlugin, BitBltSimulation, FilePlugin, and SocketPlugin) until you get a working VM. You can also safely add OSProcessPlugin, XDisplayControlPlugin, and AioPlugin, but these are not necessary to get a working VM.
I dont want to judge someone else plan to serve images, but i know that the best solution is always to do as much as i can by myself. So i can offer 10Mbit line with ftp and http access if you will be so kind and upload it there - to my machine. I can run it for years and i also run seaside web so maybe it can be interesting in future. Now there is only hardware e-shop at www.barnet.sk ,but i can build it all tomorow. Please let me know if you can upload your 64 bit image if i will do some web support for 64 bit squeak in future.
Give me an ftp account and password and I'll send you a working image within 24 hours.
Dave