Advent of Code 2021

How to smalltalk

Download gnu smalltalk

The story

I would have used brew except the bottle was not available https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gnu-smalltalk#default

I thus submitted a new issue to brew where it becamse apparent that the ARM bottle did not exist for gnu-smalltalk. Homebrew/homebrew-core#113868

At this point, I realised that I would have to turn to Docker to get this working. And it did.

The outcome

You can build the container for this project as follows:

docker build -t advent_smalltalk_2021 .
# or
make docker-build

This will grab the latest ubuntu container; install gnu-smalltalk via apt, and open up a bash shell, where the various smalltalk programs can then be executed.

Run one of the files like so

docker run advent_smalltalk_2021 gst <SMALLTALK_FILE>
# e.g. -
docker run advent_smalltalk_2021 gst src/7/7.st