[Cuis-dev] Bad news (Was Re: Big Fun on Linux was ( Updates to VectorGraphics and precompiled MacVM))

[Juan Vuletich]

Thanks Gerald!

I'll test and report, hopefully soon.

I just discovered a bug in the UTF8 and UTF32 text display primitives, 
that are not used at all (except by a few demos in MorphicCanvas class 
side). No need to rebuild VMs for general use, though.

Cheers,

-- 
Juan Vuletich
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On 6/2/2021 10:36 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> please see below ...
>
> On 6/2/21 2:49 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi Gerald,
>>
>> On 6/2/2021 8:06 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> Hi Folks, Hi Juan,
>>>
>>> tried to build that stuff on windows -- after
>>> some windows updates -- with bad results.
>>>
>>> VM crashes when it loads an image,
>>> no clue why. I have no stomach to debug this.
>>
>> I'd like to test the VectorEnginePlugin on Win32, especially to 
>> compare an old Atom with a RasPI, but I can wait. If not earlier, 
>> when VectorEnginePlugin gets integrated into the official 
>> OpenSmalltalk VMs it will be available for all supported platforms.
>>
>>> I managed to build the rapsberry pi VM,
>>> obviously the move to clang did
>>> break the CameraPlugin and the FFIplugin.
>>> The former is probably unimportant;
>>> a VM without the later is not what
>>> one wants for Cuis.
>>>
>>> At least this VM starts a plain Cuis-image,
>>> of course after I disabled the aforementioned
>>> plugins.
>>
>> Please make this VM available. I'd like to test on my raspi, and 
>> don't need FFI for that.
> VM is here:
> https://www.klix.ch/haver/releases/5.0-202106020800-HVR_MVP_ALPHA3_VEP_2021-06-02-aarch64-32bit.tar.xz 
>
>
> Linux AMD64 is here:
> https://www.klix.ch/haver/releases/5.0-202105210801-HVR_MVP_ALPHA3_VEP_2021-06-02-x86-64bit.tar.xz 
>
>
> Please note, that the Raspi VM may not work on a
> 32bit-Kernel, although I compiled it for 32bit user space. Last time I 
> tried ld.so complained
> about incompatible c-libraries.
>
> I will try to compile it for an older Raspi OS
> version. This may take some time, because I only have a Raspi 3 for 
> that purpose; lacking RAM and
> mirrored USB3-sticks. NFS doesn't help much
> either; it has this USB2-connected GBit-Ethernet
> hardware.
>
>>
>> Also, I'd like to test your Linux x64 VM with the plugin.
> See above.
>
>>
>>> This one:
>>> https://github.com/bavison/opensmalltalk-vm.git
> --- snip ---
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> HTH,
>
> Gerald