So here I am, happily hacking along at my first Iliad web application, when I get all fancy and want to set it up on a public server.

Heh ... a bit of fiddling required, since neither "my" Iliad nor "my" gst are out of the box anymore, but applying two patches is not too hard work.

Now I have everything ready: patched gst starts the REPL, gst-package builds OnlineTester.star, gst-load -viI ot.im OnlineTester ... throws an error, while starting Swazoo. Ah, yes, I think quickly, that port is already in use here. So I change, rinse and repeat ... and the error is still there. A FileError? When opening a socket. What?

The latest ebuild available on gentoo targets GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2. 3.1 has been out for quite some time and there are several improvements available via git. This post describes what I did to make things work on my Gentoo amd64 system.