Re: Gnu Smalltalk on macOS Monterey 12.6.3

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I am not sure what the solution is for your problem, but as far as I tested,
GNU smalltalk ( https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk ) and the GNU smalltalk 
browser work on Solaris 11.4.

Solaris 11.4 has a a GNOME 3 (3.24) destkop but it also supports older GNOME 2.

By "works" I mean that the GNU smalltalk browser works and seems to use the 
compatibility older libgtk libraries,
which are provided by the OS for compatibility.

Perhaps other operating systems with a GNOME 41 or 43 desktop (current version 
at https://www.gnome.org/ seems 43),
may also provide required libraries of GNOME 2.

Regards,
David Stes

----- Op 3 feb 2023 om 16:54 schreef Werner Heigl via Users mailing list for 
the GNU Smalltalk environment help-smalltalk@gnu.org:

> 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’t 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 ‘About’ window works and looks very
> nice:
> 
> 
> 
> Trying to open any of the top three menu items in the ’Smalltalk’ menu doesn’t
> do anything. Issuing a ‘Smalltalk—>File in…’ 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’m 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