Smalltalk GUI on Mac OS X Lion (10.7)

Question

I need a small GUI line for my homework and I am running Mac OS X Lion (10.7).

I have seen that UNIX users typically use GNU Smalltalk and GTK + .

I tried to install them from different versions of sources, and all of them give some errors.

Then I used MacPorts, but this installation breaks the GTK + bindings for gst.

Finally, I tried to install it using the fing package manager (since GNU claims that I should install everything well), but there is no smalltalk package for 10.7 OS (although there are also for the previous ones).

Is there a way to use smalltalk under Mac OS Lion, or should I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine?

Answer 1

You can also try Pharo, which is a Squeak fork.

http://www.pharo-project.org/home

Answer 2

Uko,

Have you looked at Squeak? Its open source version of Smalltalk, which is very interesting to use and supported on most platforms.

Cm:

http://squeak.org/

You will need a specific SqueakVM for Mac:

http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/

Let me know if you have any further questions ...

Answer 3

Squeak or Pharo are real Smalltalks (unlike GNU). This means that they have a Smalltalk IDE. The IDEs were invented by the creators of Smalltalk, so whatever you think about the IDEs, you probably don't.

My video series, Squeak from the beginning, shows how to download the latest version of Squeak Smalltalk and get started with it. Pharo is no harder to install.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6601A198DF14788D&feature=view_all

Answer 4

You can also specify the version of Personal Works for VisualWorks:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/developer-community/trying-cincom-smalltalk/try-cincom-smalltalk/

I assume you will get version 7.8 (.1?). OSX skin is quite outdated. I promise that everything will get better. Look for 7.9 soon.