[Glass] GemTools 1.0-beta.8.7.1-32x not working with GS 3.2.8.1

[Richard Sargent via Glass]

If your server is 3.2.8.1, you should use the same Windows distribution.
3.2.8 should also work. 3.2.9 could be a crap shoot. Most importantly, take
all the 32-bit DLLs for use with a 32-bit client.
On Sep 19, 2015 2:49 PM, "Dale K. Henrichs via Glass" <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Alejandro Zuzek via Glass" <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>
> | To: glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com
> | Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:32:06 PM
> | Subject: Re: [Glass] GemTools 1.0-beta.8.7.1-32x not working with GS
> 3.2.8.1
> |
> | Hi Dale,
> |
> | I am using GemTools 1.0-beta.8.7.1-32x on Windows, however it does
> | not seem
> | to work with GS 3.2.8.1 (it may have worked with previous 3.2.*
> | versions,
> | but I wouldn't be able to tell since I made the leap from GS 3.1.0.4
> | to GS
> | 3.2.8.1).
> |
> | Since I run my GemTools on Windows,
>
> Ah, you are using Windows ...
>
> | I downloaded
> | GemBuilderC3.2.9-x86.Windows_NT and copied libgcirpc-3.2.9-64.dll to
> | the
> | Contents/Resources/ folder of my GemTools installation. I tried by
> | renaming
> | this dll to libgcirpc-3.2.8.1-64.dll and gciForWindows.dll. Neither
> | worked.
> | The first option would give me the same error as with the original
> | lib
> | (Requested version level 3020, this server is at level 3022), but the
> | second
> | option option gets me to GciLibrary>>externalCallFailed. The second
> | option
> | is the closest I could get to your suggestion for Linux to point the
> | gciForLinux.so to libgcirpc-3.3.0-32.so.
>
> Hmmmm ... GemTools uses the gciForWindows.dll, so the second option should
> have worked ... did you stop and restart your GemTools image after changing
> the files?
> |
> | In the Contents/Resources/ folder as it was created by unzipping the
> | GemTools one click file, gciForWindows.dll and
> | libgcirpc-3.2.8.1-64.dll are
> | two separate files with different sizes,
>
> The gciForWindows.dll is just a copy of the libgcirpc-*-32.dll from the
> release ... did you copy the libssl*.dll along with the libciprpc*.dll ...
>
> You are mentioning a libgcirpc-3.2.8.1-64.dll when I would think that you
> should be using the libgcirpc-3.2.8.1-32.dll the 32 bit library from the
> lib32 directory (I don't work with Windows so perhaps the files are named
> wrong ... or you copied the wrong ell files ...). As I said the
> libciprpc*.dll should be copied to gciForWindows.dll and you need the
> libssl*.dll as well.
> | so I was not surprised when
> | I got
> | the externalCallFailed error after overwriting gciForWindows.dll with
> | libgciprpc-3.2.9-64.dll. It seems to me that the version level is set
> | by
> | gciForWindows.dll, but I can't get hold of a version of it that would
> | be
> | more current than the one that came with GemTools 1.0-beta.8.7.1-32x.
> a 64 bit library called from a 32 program could be causing the problem ...
> as well as perhaps needed the 3.2.9 libssl*.dll ...
>
> Now I would have thought that the older versions would work with the newer
> version of GemSTone, but occasionally we do make bug fixes that require
> using a newer version of the gci libs ... in which case 3.2.9 will likely
> work (unless you get another compat error)
> | There
> | is a newer version of libgciprpc in GemBuilderC3.2.9-x86.Windows_NT,
> | but no
> | gciForWindows.dll in that package.
>
> gciWindows.dll is the alias that is used for GemTools to make it possible
> for the FFI interface to be able to find the libgci library ... In Pharo3.0
> and with tODE I've been able to load the gci libraries directly (without
> changing the name) and I've been able to switch libraries without having to
> stop/restart the image ...
>
> Dale
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