Pharo ZeroConf does not download VM for Raspberry Pi (64 bit), Pi support outdated

[astares]

I had an elder Raspberry pi that I today fresly installed with the 64 bit version of Raspian OS.

When I try to get Pharo 12 via ZeroConf I receive an error for the combined (image + vm) download

wget -O- https://get.pharo.org/64/120+vm | bash
--2025-01-11 01:43:02--  https://get.pharo.org/64/120+vm
Resolving get.pharo.org (get.pharo.org)... 2001:41d0:301::23, 164.132.235.17
Connecting to get.pharo.org (get.pharo.org)|2001:41d0:301::23|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3064 (3.0K)
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                   100%[===================>]   2.99K  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2025-01-11 01:43:02 (75.3 MB/s) - written to stdout [3064/3064]

Downloading the latest 120 Image:
    http://files.pharo.org/get-files/120/pharoImage-aarch64.zip
Pharo.image
Downloading the latest pharoVM:
	http://files.pharo.org/get-files/120/pharo-vm-Linux-aarch64-stable.zip
[pharo-vm/vm.zip]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of pharo-vm/vm.zip or
        pharo-vm/vm.zip.zip, and cannot find pharo-vm/vm.zip.ZIP, period.

[astares]

Just downloading the image works

wget -O- https://get.pharo.org/64/120 | bash
--2025-01-11 01:50:45--  https://get.pharo.org/64/120
Resolving get.pharo.org (get.pharo.org)... 2001:41d0:301::23, 164.132.235.17
Connecting to get.pharo.org (get.pharo.org)|2001:41d0:301::23|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3452 (3.4K)
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                                100%[=======================================================>]   3.37K  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2025-01-11 01:50:45 (62.0 MB/s) - written to stdout [3452/3452]

Downloading the latest 120 Image:
    http://files.pharo.org/get-files/120/pharoImage-aarch64.zip

[astares]

When trying to download the latest VM manually (not through ZeroConf) but from https://files.pharo.org/get-files/120/
then it is also not very fruitful:

wget https://files.pharo.org/get-files/120/pharo-vm-Linux-aarch64-latest.zip
unzip pharo-vm-Linux-aarch64-latest.zip

and running

./pharo Pharo.image

one runs into the next issue:

[ERROR] 2025-01-11 02:03:24.000 sqAllocateMemory (src/memoryUnix.c:160):I cannot find a good memory address starting from: 0x10000000000
[ERROR] 2025-01-11 02:03:24.000 error (src/debug.c:45):Failed to allocate memory for the heap

VM Error Sat Jan 11 02:03:24 2025


/home/kiwi/pharo/pharo12/lib/pharo
PharoVM version:5.0-Pharo 10.0.5-2757766 built on May  9 2023 15:51:31 Compiler: 11.3.0 11.3.0 [Production Spur 64-bit VM]
Built from: CoInterpreter VMMaker-tonel.1 uuid: 41510b8b-a5b7-0d00-9fe1-a0050e5cd28a May  9 2023
 With:StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker-tonel.1 uuid: 41510b8b-a5b7-0d00-9fe1-a0050e5cd28a May  9 2023
 Revision: v10.0.5 - Commit: 2757766 - Date: 2023-05-05 13:46:09 +0200


Aborted Sat Jan 11 02:03:24 2025


/home/kiwi/pharo/pharo12/lib/pharo
PharoVM version:5.0-Pharo 10.0.5-2757766 built on May  9 2023 15:51:31 Compiler: 11.3.0 11.3.0 [Production Spur 64-bit VM]
Built from: CoInterpreter VMMaker-tonel.1 uuid: 41510b8b-a5b7-0d00-9fe1-a0050e5cd28a May  9 2023
 With:StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker-tonel.1 uuid: 41510b8b-a5b7-0d00-9fe1-a0050e5cd28a May  9 2023
 Revision: v10.0.5 - Commit: 2757766 - Date: 2023-05-05 13:46:09 +0200

While the other had been touched and built in year 2024, the Linux variant pharo-vm-Linux-aarch64-latest.zip
is outdated from 9.5.2023:

[astares]

If one downloads and runs the Pharo launcher from the website this also does not give a working combination:

./pharo-launcher-ui 
	not a dynamic executable
	not a dynamic executable
Error. Could not determine platform's libc path for VM. 
Try forcing $PLATFORMLIBDIR in /home/kiwi/pharo-launcher/pharo-vm/pharo, based on LIBC_SO.
Please report what works to pharo [vm-dev] mail list.
  LIBC_SO=
  PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
  NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
  VERSION_ID="12"
  VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
  VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
  ID=debian
  UNAME=Linux docbox 6.6.51+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.51-1+rpt3 (2024-10-08) aarch64 GNU/Linux
  System seems to be 64 bit. You may need to (re)install the 32-bit libraries.

[astares]

So at the moment a user will have a hard time to get anything to work. Although the website states Raspberry support with an icon and also for ZeroConf:

[robvanlopik]

see pharo-project/pharo-vm#852. There is no recent PharoVM for ARM, it seems.
There is also PR #856 in the VM repo that seems stalled. (pharo-project/pharo-vm#856)