Fatal VM error using latest image/vm

[Wouter Gazendam]

Hi,

I'm getting a Fatal VM error using the latest image and Win32 vm. I've tried using previous vm's and images but those also seem to give errors.

See attached error message & crash dump.

Thank you,

Wouter

[Vaidotas Didžbalis]

Hello group,
Just to confirm, I also ran into this

regards,

Vaidotas

[Gilad Bracha]

Thanks Wouter. I'm afraid the Windows VM situation is problematic. The  version on the download page is s quite old, but later VMs have proved completely unusable.  I am not at all sure when this will be fixed.  See https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/151

[Wouter Gazendam]

Is there a last-known-good vm/image combination?

[Gilad Bracha]

The VM on the downloads page, and the 2017.05.31 image 

https://bitbucket.org/newspeaklanguage/newspeak/downloads/ns-2017-05-31.32.zip.

This was the last image before the VM work switched to OpenSmalltalk. Since then things on Windows have been broken.  Some progress has been made - for a long time there was no testing done for windows on OpenSmalltalk at all. I hope that we can get someone to get it to a point where a proper installer is built and tested, and the VM issues are resolved. I can't say that I'm happy with how it's gone so far.

[Wouter Gazendam]

Thanks; this seems to work.

Is there anything I (as a windows user) can do wrt the OpenSmalltalk VM? My C skills are abysmal but I can test new builds.

[Gilad Bracha]

Hi Wouter,

As far as I know, Fabio (m...@fniephaus.com) is planning to refine the Newspeak setup on OpenSmalltalk so it builds a proper installer (.msi). If you feel comfortable figuring that out, you could get in touch with him and see if that could be moved along faster.

At a more basic level, you could ping Eliot and remind him that this is a problem for real users.