Re: Need help compiling the JIT

Derek Zhou via Users mailing list for the GNU Smalltalk environment <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Jun 2021 21:43:09 -0400

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On 2021-06-03 20:26:51Z, Piotr Klibert wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm working on a side-project in GNU Smalltalk. I use the latest version from Git, and when I tried enabling JIT via ./configure --enable-jit option, I got the following error during compilation:

> I'm on 64bit Linux, Fedora 32. I couldn't find any information about building the JIT, or its status, ie. if it's even expected to compile, or is it a broken/unfinished part of the GST. Any help would be very appreciated :-)

I don't think the JIT is finished. JIT is hard to get right; for example, Erlang only get JIT this year, at version 24, at the mature age of 35 :)

Derek