Gnu Smalltalk on macOS Monterey 12.6.3

Dear all,

Over the past two weeks I have been trying to get gst-blox or =
gst-browser to work without success. I have given up on gst-browser =
because I can=E2=80=99t find libgtk2-dev for the Mac. Besides, Tk gives =
me the Mac look-and-feel.

Running get-blox from the terminal seems to work, at least I can see an =
entry in the menu bar at the top of the screen. The =E2=80=98About=E2=80=99=
 window works and looks very nice:



Trying to open any of the top three menu items in the =E2=80=99Smalltalk=E2=
=80=99 menu doesn=E2=80=99t do anything. Issuing a =E2=80=98Smalltalk=E2=80=
=94>File in=E2=80=A6=E2=80=99 results in this error:

Object: nil error: did not understand #rootView
MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #rootView =
(SysExcept.st:1408)
BLOX.BLOXBrowser.Prompter class>>openFileName:default:in: =
(BLOXBrowser.star#VFS.ZipFile/ModalDialog.st:108)
BLOX.BLOXBrowser.BrowserMain class>>fileIn =
(BLOXBrowser.star#VFS.ZipFile/BrowserMain.st:139)
DirectedMessage(Message)>>sendTo: (Message.st:113)
DirectedMessage>>send (DirMessage.st:95)
BLOX.BMenuItem(BLOX.BMenuObject)>>invokeCallback =
(BloxTK.star#VFS.ZipFile/BloxBasic.st:2995)

In general, gst-blox keeps the CPU load high for some reason.



I think that Gnu Smalltalk is really good and it would be a pity if it =
goes stale. And without the browser you kind of miss the Smalltalk =
experience, all the while the competition has it working on all major =
platforms.

I=E2=80=99m willing to help but would need some pointers on where to =
start looking. And if anyone has managed to get the GUI stuff working on =
a Mac please let me know.

Thank you,

Werner Heigl