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- GNU Smalltalk version 1.1
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 gray 556569 Sep 25 15:18 smalltalk1-1.zoo
-
-
- Here is a very early (probably very buggy) version of Gnu Smalltalk V1.1
- port for the atariST.
-
- requirements:
- A 4M atariSt is really required.
- a decent shell (i use gulam)
-
- installing:
- - adjust path names in mstpaths.h
- - adjust makefile to find gcc (i call it cgcc)
- - link or copy config/m-atari.h to mstconfig.h
- - in ymakefile change the line that says
- CFLAGS = CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS_NORMAL) $(READLINEDEF)
- to
- CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE) $(READLINEDEF)
- - in config/m-atari.h add the line
- #define EXTRA_CC_FLAGS -fomit-frame-pointer -fcombine-regs
- to the bottom of the file
-
- - hit make
-
- file names etc:
- - if you use UNIXMODE, be sure to either
- unsetenv UNIXMODE
- or
- create all the links using ln -s
-
- -put all the files and executable in a subdir (i put them in \smalltk)
- -on startup it will look in $HOME/stinit for the init file
- -rename ProcessScheduler.st to ProcSched.st before transferring
- files to your St (otherwise the name clashes with Processes.st)
-
- -to make the image:
- mst -V
- this will dump mst.im and then will come to the interactive
- prompt 'st>'. Hit Control-D at this point to exit.
-
- to run
- cd to the subdir with the image and sources
- hit: mst
- wait for the 'st>' prompt (this will take a while)
-
- testing:
- cd test
- run.g run the gulam shell script
- there will be two diffs, both are of no consequence.
- cd examples
- mst -V printhier.st
- mst -V mem-usage.st this will take a while, and do a lot of gc
- flipping.
- enjoy,
- --
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-
- addendum:
- while building the image, mst.ttp really needs all of memory. It cant
- even stand gulam being there. once you have built the image, there is
- no problem, you can run it quite comfortably with gulam and a few
- acccessories present. the reason is as follows: when its building an
- image, mst freezes the garbage collector, requesting more and more
- memory from the system (instead of re-using what it has already via
- garbage collection). so it ends up requesting a lot of memory (and
- that is the error you are seeing). Once it builds up the image, at the
- very end it kicks the GC in (you will see a message to this effect),
- gc's and dumps the image into mst.im, and then its ready for action.
- once you have built the image, there is no problem, at startup it'll
- check all the kernel classes against the image, and unless something
- has changed, it'll suck in the image in one fell scoop, and kick the
- GC right in, and it happily goes along after that (with gulam etc present).
-
- here is the procedure i would recommend:
-
- (the default path built into mst.ttp is \smalltk, ie. a folder
- called "smalltk" at the root of any drive)
-
- - copy all the *.st files and mst.ttp into \smalltk
- - from the desktop double click on mst.ttp
- - in the dialog box that appears, enter "-V" (capital V)
- - it'll think for a while and then start listing lines of
- the form "processing foo.st..."
- - after its done with all the kernel classes, it'll kick in
- the GC, and then start dumping the image into MST.IM
- -after thats done, it'll say smalltalk ready, and give
- you a prompt.
- - hit ^D (control-D) at the prompt to exit.
- now you can enter gulam, cd to \smalltk, and hit mst -V,
- it'll check for all the kernel files in \smalltk\*.st, it wont find
- anything newer that the image, mst.im, which it'll suck in,
- do a complete gc (this takes a few seconds), and then give the top level
- interactive prompt.
-
- [[ the above is no longer true in V 1.1, you can build an image using gulam ]]
- however, watch out for large accessories, ramdisk etc.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- GNU Smalltalk version 1.1
- by Steve Byrne
-
- The files in this directory and its subdirectories constitute the complete
- source code for GNU Smalltalk. The files are organized as follows:
-
- . The source files, both .st (Smalltalk) and C files
- config Various supported platforms
- contrib Contributed software
- examples Some working example Smalltalk files
- test Regression testing files
- stix SmallTalk Interface to X
-
- About GNU Smalltalk
-
- GNU Smalltalk attempts to be a reasonably faithful implementation of
- Smalltalk-80 {tm ParcPlace Systems} as described in the "Blue Book", also know
- as "Smalltalk-80, the Language and its Implementation", by Adele Goldberg and
- David Robson. The syntax that the language accepts and the byte codes that the
- virtual machine interprets are exactly as they appear in the Blue Book. Most
- of the primitives are the same as well, although due to the differing nature of
- the implementation some of the primitives haven't been implemented, and other
- new ones have been.
-
-
- The current implementation has the following features:
-
- * Incremental garbage collector
- * Binary image save capability
- * C-callout (allows Smalltalk to invoke user-written C code and pass
- parameters to it)
- * GNU Emacs editing mode
- * Highly portable C code implementation
- * Optional byte code compilation tracing and byte code execution tracing
- * Automatically loaded per-user initialization files
-
-
-
- Installing GNU Smalltalk
-
- Please see the file mst.texinfo which contains the information on how to
- install GNU Smalltalk, and general documentation about the features of
- the system.
-
-
- Bugs
-
- To report bugs or suggestions (or even offer assistance :-) ), send mail
- to bug-gnu-smalltalk@prep.ai.mit.edu. If there is sufficient traffic, I
- will set up a gnu.smalltalk newsgroup as well.
-