On Thursday 20 December 2001 11:58, David P. Harris wrote:

Wow, nice Christmass present -- Thanks, and All the Best of the Season. David

I would also like to thank Harald Gliebe for getting it to work and Gordon Cichon for starting this. I haven't been able to try it yet since my libc is too old, but it is just the incentive I needed to upgrade my Linux distribution (the CD-ROM has been lying here for a few months).

This might also be another option in Victor Yurkovsky's search for a "Self box". Now all we need to is port this to Windows and our journey to the dark side will be complete ;-) I can't even boot into Windows anymore, so I am not volunteering for this...

-- Jecel

Hi Kyle, thanks for the feedback, I'll include the changes in the next release. I think most of the original source code is from 1995 or earlier, and the c++ standard and compilers have changed since then - therefore the warnings. I tried to change the original code in as few places as possible, to make it easier to diff/merge against the original code. Note that the debug version also contains a lot of assertions that will slow down the VM. I mostly use the optimzed version when im working in Self, and when it crashes, I try to reproduce the bug in the debug version.

Best regards, Harald

----- Original Message ----- From: "kyle" kyle_hayes@pacbell.net To: self-interest@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [self-interest] Fw: [Ann:] Self4Linux-0.2.0 alpha available

On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:36, you wrote:

Hi everyone!

I'd like to announce the availability of an alpha version of Self for

Linux

at http://www.gliebe.de/self/index.html

This is great!

I was able to compile the source from your source tarball with two changes:

file: Self4Linux-0.2.0/vm/src/any/os/os.c

I added #include <time.h> to this file.

file: Self4Linux-0.2.0/vm/src/unix/os/os_unix.c

I also added #include <time.h> to this file.

With those two changes, I was able to compile. I get several warnings with G++. My guess is that the code has not been updated for newer (stricter) compilers.

I generated the debug executable so that I might have a chance with GDB if Self crashes. It took about 15 minutes of CPU time to generate the initial image :-( This is with an Intel P-II 400 PC with 384MB of RAM.

I am using SuSE 7.2, but the kernel is 2.4.7.

The UI comes up, but is rather slow even on the third or fourth time I do an action (just bringing up the middle-mouse menu takes a couple of seconds).

Now, I have to find where I put my Self documentation...

Thanks again for this Christmas present!

Where do I send the beer money?

Best, Kyle

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