TIL:

• USB drive formatted as exFAT by macOS cannot be mounted by Windows 10
• Same drive reformatted as exFAT by Windows 10 can be mounted on macOS for read/write

Conclusion: To use exFAT USB drive for portable storage, format the drive on Windows 10.

I've set up dual boot on my laptop as per the post title. The article is long because of the many screenshots and as such has its own page.

My trusty Linux laptop finally stopped working, and the standby is now too slow for any useful work.

The replacement laptop comes with Windows 10 Home. With Visual Studio 2019 community edition, Dolphin Smalltalk built cleanly. With Cygwin, the OpenSmalltalk VM for Squeak too built cleanly. This VM runs both Squeak and Cuis. The Pharo edition of OpenSmalltalk VM failed to build; ditto Pharo's fork of the VM.

Next, to set up dual boot.

On Windows 7, setting up multilingual (for me, Chinese and Japanese) input for Pharo is straightforward: Outside of Pharo, configure Windows multilingual input. Start Pharo and choose a font such as Arial Unicode MS. Then, just switch Windows's input system using hot-key or mouse click, and type, or write, as the case may be.

I had the occasion to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop and took the chance to set it up with the latest development tools. The objective was to build OpenSmalltalk for Pharo and Dolphin Smalltalk on the machine.

Install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition

This is primarily for building Dolphin Smalltalk. The command line tools come in handy when building SQLite.

I chose to install most VS2017 options and it weighed in at a whopping 50GB of disk space.

Install Cygwin

I installed the 64-bit edition. The following packages are required to build 32-bit OpenSmalltalk.

• cmake
• gcc-core
• gcc-g++
• libglib2.0-devel
• libglib2.0
• make
• mingw-i686-gcc-core
• mingw-i686-gcc-g++
• mingw-i686-headers
• mingw-i686-runtime
• patch
• perl-base
• wget
• zip

iconv.dll

Jumping ahead a bit, as part of the build process, the OpenSmalltalk build system attempts to copy /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/iconv.dll. On my Cygwin installation, there is no such file, but there does exist /usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll. To make things simple, I copied /usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll over to where OpenSmalltalk expects to find it. Looking around the web, I believe cygiconv-2.dll is the correct file.

Build OpenSmalltalk

Start a Cygwin terminal. Clone the OpenSmalltalk VM repo and build the VM.

$ mkdir -p /cygdrive/c/Users/Pierce/source/repos/opensmalltalk
$ cd /cygdrive/c/Users/Pierce/source/repos/opensmalltalk
$ git clone https://github.com/opensmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git
...
Checking out files: 100% (10541/10541), done.
$ cd opensmalltalk-vm/build.win32x86/pharo.cog.spur
$ ../../scripts/updateSCCSVersions
$ ./mvm -f
<humongous amount of output, much fan noise and heat dissipation from laptop>
$ ls build/vm
btext.o			  Pharo.def		      sqNamedPrims.o	      sqWin32PluginSupport.o
cogit.o			  Pharo.exe		      sqPath.o		      sqWin32Prefs.o
etext.o			  Pharo.exe.manifest	      sqTextEncoding.o	      sqWin32Service.o
FileAttributesPlugin.dll  Pharo.exp		      sqTicker.o	      sqWin32SpurAlloc.o
FT2Plugin.dll		  Pharo.lib		      SqueakSSL.dll	      sqWin32Stubs.o
gcc3x-cointerp.o	  Pharo.map		      sqVirtualMachine.o      sqWin32Threads.o
iconv.dll		  Pharo.res		      sqWin32Alloc.o	      sqWin32Time.o
libcairo-2.dll		  PharoConsole.exe	      sqWin32Backtrace.o      sqWin32Utils.o
libeay32.dll		  PharoConsole.exe.manifest   sqWin32DirectInput.o    sqWin32VMProfile.o
libfreetype.dll		  PharoConsole.map	      sqWin32Directory.o      sqWin32Window.o
libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll	  PharoConsoleUnstripped.exe  sqWin32DnsInfo.o	      ssleay32.dll
libgit2.dll		  PharoUnstripped.exe	      sqWin32Exports.o	      SurfacePlugin.dll
libpixman-1-0.dll	  resource.o		      sqWin32ExternalPrims.o  version.o
libpng16-16.dll		  SDL2.dll		      sqWin32GUID.o	      zlib1.dll
libssh2-1.dll		  sqExternalSemaphores.o      sqWin32Heartbeat.o
libwinpthread-1.dll	  sqHeapMap.o		      sqWin32Main.o

Now open a cmd.exe window and copy the VM files out.

C:\> mkdir c:\pkg\pharo6vm32
C:\> copy c:\Users\Pierce\source\repos\opensmalltalk\opensmalltalk-vm\build.win32x86\pharo.cog.spur\build\vm\*.dll c:\pkg\pharo6vm32
C:\> copy c:\Users\Pierce\source\repos\opensmalltalk\opensmalltalk-vm\build.win32x86\pharo.cog.spur\build\vm\*.exe c:\pkg\pharo6vm32
C:\>dir /d c:\pkg\pharo6vm32
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is FCE0-E161

 Directory of c:\pkg\pharo6vm32

[.]                          libssh2-1.dll
[..]                         libwinpthread-1.dll
FileAttributesPlugin.dll     Pharo.exe
FT2Plugin.dll                PharoConsole.exe
iconv.dll                    PharoConsoleUnstripped.exe
libcairo-2.dll               PharoUnstripped.exe
libeay32.dll                 SDL2.dll
libfreetype.dll              SqueakSSL.dll
libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll          ssleay32.dll
libgit2.dll                  SurfacePlugin.dll
libpixman-1-0.dll            zlib1.dll
libpng16-16.dll
              21 File(s)     47,771,093 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  29,938,479,104 bytes free

Build SQLite DLL

Download and unpack the SQLite source amalgamation. The how to compile SQLite page states to use the following MSVC command:

cl sqlite3.c -link -dll -out:sqlite3.dll

While this produces a DLL, said DLL doesn't actually export any symbol and is thus useless for FFI. This blog post by Mario Guggenberger provides the magic incantation:

cl sqlite3.c -DSQLITE_API=__declspec(dllexport) -link -dll -out:sqlite3.dll

To get to the 32-bit MSVC command line tools, click through the following: Windows Menu, All Programs, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Tools, VC, x86 Native Tools Command Prompt. This launches a cmd.exe shell with the appropriate tools set up.

Build sqlite3.dll and copy it to c:\pkg\pharo6vm32.

Test with Pharo 7

Download the Pharo 7 32-bit image zip. Unpack and make a copy - I named the image file wintesting. Double click on c:\pkg\pharo6vm32\Pharo.exe and choose wintesting.image to start.

In Pharo, open Catalog Browser. Select and install GlorpSQLite. It fails. Run below Metacello snippet, which is what is executed when loading GlorpSQLite from Catalog Browser.

Metacello new
  baseline: 'GlorpSQLite';
  repository: 'github://PierceNg/glorp-sqlite3:pharo7';
  load

Fails with message "The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation".

There is a related Iceberg issue on GH. The suggestion is to use a newer version of libgit2.

Build newer libgit2

The current version of libgit2 used is 0.25.1, according to opensmalltalk-vm/third-party/libgit2.spec.

libgit2_spec_download_url:=https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v0.25.1.tar.gz
libgit2_spec_archive_name:=libgit2-v0.25.1.tar.gz
libgit2_spec_unpack_dir_name:=libgit2-0.25.1
libgit2_spec_product_name_macOS:=libgit2.0.25.1.dylib
libgit2_spec_product_name_linux:=libgit2.so.0.25.1
libgit2_spec_product_name_windows:=libgit2.dll
libgit2_spec_symlinks_macOS:=libgit2*.dylib
libgit2_spec_symlinks_linux:=libgit2.so*
#libgit2_spec_download_url:=https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v0.23.0.tar.gz
#libgit2_spec_archive_name:=libgit2-v0.23.0.tar.gz
#libgit2_spec_unpack_dir_name:=libgit2-0.23.0
#libgit2_spec_product_name_macOS:=libgit2.0.23.0.dylib
#libgit2_spec_product_name_linux:=libgit2.so.0.23.0
#libgit2_spec_product_name_windows:=libgit2.dll
#libgit2_spec_symlinks_macOS:=libgit2*.dylib
#libgit2_spec_symlinks_linux:=libgit2.so*

According to libgit2 GH repo, the newest versions are 0.27.8 and 0.26.8.

I first tried 0.27.8 but building failed. I then tried 0.26.8 and this time it built successfully. This is what libgit2.spec looks like now:

libgit2_spec_download_url:=https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/archive/v0.26.8.tar.gz
libgit2_spec_archive_name:=libgit2-v0.26.8.tar.gz
libgit2_spec_unpack_dir_name:=libgit2-0.26.8
libgit2_spec_product_name_macOS:=libgit2.0.26.8.dylib
libgit2_spec_product_name_linux:=libgit2.so.0.26.8
libgit2_spec_product_name_windows:=libgit2.dll
libgit2_spec_symlinks_macOS:=libgit2*.dylib
libgit2_spec_symlinks_linux:=libgit2.so*

To build the newer version of libgit2 and the rest of the VM, re-run ./mvm -f in build.win32x86\pharo.cog.spur. When done, copy the .exe and .dll files into c:\pkg\pharo6vm32.

2nd Test

Start Pharo again and repeat steps described above in section Test with Pharo 7. This time Catalog Browser loads GlorpSQLite successfully.

GlorpSQLite on Pharo 7 on Windows 7

Open Test Runner and run Glorp tests. All tests pass.