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by lovelyviking 1085 days ago
I wanted to play with Smalltalk on a new machine similar to raspberry pi but I was struggling to port squeak to it. Generated C source didn’t compile even though raspberry pi version should work there.

So now what? The only way forward is to really dig deeply into the ‘beauty” of C to make it work? This is exactly what I was trying to avoid in the first place!)

Perhaps you are the right person to ask. Do you think it is a design flaw to have vm tightly coupled with C and all it’s compilation nightmares ?

It doesn’t compile/run on the machine, possibly due to the lack of sound hardware but excluding sound package didn’t help. Where/what is the best way to get help with that? Perhaps you can give a wise advice on that.