Hey Mariano, Work perfectly for me (10.8.2) :
$ ./CogVM-release-noflash-noArgs.app/Contents/MacOS/CogVM Pharo-20472.image eval 'ZnServer startDefaultOn: 9999. [ (Delay forSeconds:1000) wait ] repeat.' Thanks, a useful addition ! Sven On 18 Jan 2013, at 20:14, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > For a long time, Pharaoers and Squakers have been asking for headless support > in the Cocoa VMs just as we have with Carbon VMs. Carbon is becoming a legacy > framework so people needed this. > > I wanted to thanks Square [i] International for sponsoring me to implement > such a support. Not only have they sponsored the development but they have > also agreed to release it under MIT license for the community. This headless > support will be included in the official Pharo VM and will be, therefore, > accessible to everybody. > > The project is not yet finished but I do have a demo/prototype that I wanted > to share with you so that you can test it and give me feedback. This VM > should only work starting at OSX 10.6. > > How to use it? Basically it works this way: to have headless, just edit the > Info.plist and set the flag LSBackgroundOnly to 1 (add the key if it is not > present): > > <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key> > <true/> > > When doing this, you don't even need the -headless anymore since, setting > LSBackgroundOnly to 1, will cause the same effect (being the flag almost > mandatory). If you don't want headless, put it to false or don't even put the > key. If you don't set LSBackgroundOnly to 1 but send -headless, the VM will > still be headless but you will see a little flash. If this flash bothers you, > then set the flag. I am trying to get a way to avoid the "flash" while also > avoiding to set LSBackgroundOnly to 1, but I still couldn't find it. Anyway, > I think we can live with the current situation. > > How to test it? You should run the image with something like RFB or Seaside > or whatever you can and then confirm if it is working even if you are > headless. As a matter of testing, I saved an image with seaside running in > the port 5555. You can get both, this Seaside image and the VM with headless > from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r7qk49bxywk2xce/6N7-fdyx6V > So if you run the VM headless with that image and go to localhost:5555, you > should see that Seaside is running. > > I would appreciate if you can test it. And please let me know in which > version of OSX you tried. Of course, the more of you who can test it, the > better. Notice that this VM was compiled with LLVM GCC 4.2 and it may have > some problems in older OSX versions (but I think it shouldn't). I still > couldn't compile a VM with GNU GCC 4.2 as I get a crash :( > > Expected results? In headless mode, anything should be displayed (no window, > no menu, no item in the dock and nothing appear when switching apps). When > running headfull, everything should be normal. > > Where is the code? The code I have modified to the VM is committed to my own > fork of the VM: https://gitorious.org/~marianopeck/cogvm/marianopecks-blessed > Once the code is ready, I will do a pull request so that it can be > integrated. > > Thanks everyone for the testing and feedback. Once again, thanks Square [i] > International for sponsoring this great feature. Also thanks Esteban > Lorenzano and Mark Smith for their incredible help. > > This was just the first prototype. I will keep you informed about possible > progress. > > Best regards, > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
