Hello, About the FreeBSD VM, Holger Freyther worked on it so he's the best person to answer. I think some people used it and it was at least partially working.
About your NativeBoost bug on openSolaris, need more information: - Can you confirm that you use an intel processor on your openSolaris machine ? I assume that yes but I ask because solaris were typically running on other processors. NativeBoost, as of today, works only with intel processor. - Do you build the Cog VM or Stack VM ? I mean PharoVMBuild or PharoSVMBuild ? I think the PharoSVMBuild does not include NativeBoost by default, that may be your problem. There's a fix somewhere... - What are you doing with NativeBoost ? Is it FFI only or are you generating and executing hand-written machine code ? If it's FFI only, there might be alternative available working more or less out of the box. Best, Clement 2015-03-10 20:26 GMT+01:00 Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > > I have a question regarding the status of the PharoVM for UNIX operating > systems, especially FreeBSD. > As far as I have seen in the actual sources there is some support for > FreeBSD available but for me it’s not clear whether it’s only partial or > complete. > For me it looks more partial (eg. there are no build instructions for > FreeBSD and the default offers are only Mac, Linux and Windows), > I haven’t tried to build it yet but I am thinking about to do that and > want to get an idea about the efforts. > > I have successfully build a PharoVM for openindiana (an OpenSolaris > derivate). It runs both Pharo and Squeak images (at least partially, see > below). > I bootstrapped this on my Mac and used what was already available low > level. > Alas it has two problems until now: > 1. Sound is not working properly (just a single click when doing > some sound output and then silence). > 2. NativeBoost is not working (atm it is based on the Linux > version of NativeBoost). > > As my time is very limited (doing everything in my spare time) I would > like to get NativeBoost working on openindiana first, and then trying to > build an > actual PharoVM for FreeBSD. Therefore the question regarding the status of > PharoVM for FreeBSD. > Of course any hints where to start with the NativeBoost problem would be > highly appreciated :) > > Regards > Andreas >
