Directory bug on Windows

[Bryn Keller]

Ah, good to know I'm not crazy. I have the exact same problem (VC++ 2005 
beta 2). Compiles fine, bootstrapping hangs forever. I was getting 
messages only because I wasn't using the right image file. I'd neglected 
to do a "make get-alpha" because I was in the alpha directory already 
and assumed that get-alpha would only give me what I already had. With 
the latest images, I've got nothing.

Bryn

Bill Sun wrote:

>Bryn, how did you compiled the VM?
>
>With the latest VM compiled using VC++ 2005 beta, I
>couldn't even do the bootstraping, as the console will
>get stuck at the growing heap part in the beginning. 
>Without any errors, it just says "Slate: Growing heap
>to 48xxxx bytes." and just stays there.
>
>As an alternative, I was trying to use MinGW/MSys to
>compile the source, but the instructions on the MinGW
>installation seems out of date as the config file
>looks different from what's currently in the
>repository.  After involking the "make" command, I am
>getting an error saying it can't find gcc, I think
>that's because its using a *nix path, but I don't know
>where to change that.
>
>-Bill
>
>--- Bryn Keller <xoltar at xoltar.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>Is this the best place to report bugs? I found one
>>that occurs when you 
>>try to use a windows-style directory path, with
>>either forward or 
>>backward slashes.
>>
>>Bryn
>>
>>C:\lang\src\slate\slate-0.3.3>wdvm slate.image
>>Slate: Growing heap to 6533672 bytes.
>>Nil
>>Slate 2> Directory newNamed: 'C:/bin' .
>>Slate: Growing heap to 10727976 bytes.
>>Slate: Growing heap to 14922280 bytes.
>>Slate: Attempted to grow heap beyond limits
>>
>>C:\lang\src\slate\slate-0.3.3>wdvm slate.image
>>Slate: Growing heap to 6533672 bytes.
>>Nil
>>Slate 2> Directory newNamed: 'C:\\bin' .
>>Slate: Growing heap to 10727976 bytes.
>>Slate: Growing heap to 14922280 bytes.
>>Slate: Attempted to grow heap beyond limits
>>
>>C:\lang\src\slate\slate-0.3.3>wdvm slate.image
>>Slate: Growing heap to 6533672 bytes.
>>Nil
>>Slate 2> Directory newNamed: '/c/bin' .
>>("Directory" traitsWindow: ("Directory"
>>traitsWindow: ("Cloneable" ...).
>>        traits4: ("Cloneable" ...). traits3:
>>("Cloneable" ...). traits2: 
>>("Clone
>>able" ...).
>>        traits1: ("ExternalResource traits" ...).
>>traits: ("Cloneable" 
>>...). pri
>>ntName: 'Directory').
>>    parentResource: Nil. handle: Nil. readStream:
>>Nil. writeStream: Nil. 
>>locator
>>: ("AbsoluteLocator" traitsWindow:
>>("AbsoluteLocator" ...).
>>        path: {"ExtensibleArray" ...}. name: Nil.
>>fileType: Nil. 
>>version: Nil. h
>>ost: ''.
>>        device: Nil))
>>Slate 3>
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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