Well, everyone’s favourite prototyping language Self now runs on linux!

In the end it turned out to be really simple, requiring almost no changes to the Self build system or code.

The version of Self in the CVS tree is substantially advanced on the packaged version 4.3.

After building a new snapshot from the CVS tree I now have a working virtual machine and snapshot combination running on Ubuntu 7.04, 8.04 and OpenSuse.

I also built a new MacOS X vm to run the new snapshot.

(The new vms and snapshot aren't backwards compatible - you can't run the new snapshot on an old vm or open an old snapshot in the new vms without errors. This is mostly GUI stuff - the change from Carbon to Quartz primitives on the Mac side and changes to how X is called on the Linux side)

So Self now runs on Linux.

While I sort out some documentation, you can download a zip file with the VM+Snapshot from here.