Smalltalk - [VW] New VisualWorks 7.4d engines now available

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[VW] New VisualWorks 7.4d engines now available

Eliot Miranda

2006-10-30, 7:32 pm

see
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/Cinc...ks+7.4d+engines

Notes
- the msvcr71.dll files in the Windows archive are there by mistake
(trust a program to make a mistake). They can be discarded, and we'll
probably upload a new archive which omits them real soon now.

- there is no linuxSPARC VM because of a hardware failure. This will be
rectified by 7.5. Is anyone using linuxSPARC?
--
Eliot ,,,^..^,,, Smalltalk - scene not herd

Mike Bielser

2006-10-30, 7:32 pm

Eliot Miranda wrote:

> see
> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/Cinc...Works+7.4d+eng=
ines
>=20

OK, I installed the new engines. The first time I did this, by the way;=20
so please bear with me if the following question seems stupid: How do I=20
check which engine/VM version I have?
I tried "About VisualWorks NonCommercial..." but it only tells me

"VisualWorks=AE NonCommercial, 7.4 of December 5, 2005 <snip>"

Any hints are welcome...

Thanks
Mike

Denis Johnson

2006-10-30, 7:32 pm

Mike, currently there is no way for the image to know the version of the
VM AFAIK. So the easiest way is to simply run the vm by double clicking
on the visual.exe or vwnt (I'm assuming you are on Windows) and the
dialog box pops up telling you it cannot find and load the default
image, will also tell the the actual version and date of the VM.

HTH, cheers Denis

Mike Bielser wrote:
> Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>
> OK, I installed the new engines. The first time I did this, by the way;
> so please bear with me if the following question seems stupid: How do I
> check which engine/VM version I have?
> I tried "About VisualWorks NonCommercial..." but it only tells me
>
> "VisualWorks® NonCommercial, 7.4 of December 5, 2005 <snip>"
>
> Any hints are welcome...
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>

Eliot Miranda

2006-10-30, 7:32 pm

Mike Bielser wrote:
> Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>
> OK, I installed the new engines. The first time I did this, by the way;
> so please bear with me if the following question seems stupid: How do I
> check which engine/VM version I have?
> I tried "About VisualWorks NonCommercial..." but it only tells me
>
> "VisualWorks® NonCommercial, 7.4 of December 5, 2005 <snip>"
>
> Any hints are welcome...
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>

There are two ways. The most cryptic is to do Laucnher->Help->About
VisualWorks... and select the System tab. The versionId is a byte array
of three quads. The first quad is the VM ID, the second is the image's
ID, and the third is the VMID of the VM on which the image was (last)
saved. The first quad of a 7.4d engine should be
61 xx 61 32
where xx is a platform-specific code.

A more comprehensible way is to invoke the VM with the -v flag (and
optionally an image). Here's what I get for my 7.4.1 image and the
MacOS X x86 X11 7.4d VM:

$
/Applications/VisualWorks/vw7.4d/bin/macx86x11/visual.app/Contents/MacOS/vwmacx86x11
-v

VisualWorks(R) 7.4d Oct 24 2006
Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Cincom Systems, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Release identification ...
OE version: 61 platform: 53 release: 61.3 flags: 0
VI version: 74 minor: 1 release: 0 variant: 0
From version: 162 platform: 53 release: 62.1 flags: 0

.... where the OE line corresponds to the fgirst quad, the VI line to the
second quad and the From line the third quad.

HTH
--
Eliot ,,,^..^,,, Smalltalk - scene not herd

Mike Bielser

2006-11-01, 4:06 am

Hi Denis, Hi Eliot
thanks a lot for the information provided. I actually tried all three
approaches mentioned (on MacOS 10.4.8 and on WinXP), they work. When
looking for a solution myself, I actually "stumbled" across that
"System" tab in "Launcher->Help->About VisualWorks...", but I did not
know how to decipher it.

Thanks again, now I know that updating the VM worked...

Kind regards
Mike

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