[ANN] NativeBoost meets Linux

> Hello all,
>
> I just uploaded a fresh snapshots of NB plugin and image code,
> with necessary bits for using it under Linux.
>
> I don't know how to package Linux VM binaries, so you won't find a prebuilt VM
> and should build it yourself (anyone wants to help me with that, so i
> can add a prebuilt VM at downloads?).
>
> As usual, follow the installation instructions, located here:
> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation
>
> Warning: recently, i found a bug in callback code.
> So, please don't try using smalltalk callbacks until i fix it :)
>
> Running tests should be safe (i disabled the test which causing VM crash).
>

> Hello all,
>
> I just uploaded a fresh snapshots of NB plugin and image code,
> with necessary bits for using it under Linux.
>
> I don't know how to package Linux VM binaries, so you won't find a prebuilt VM
> and should build it yourself (anyone wants to help me with that, so i
> can add a prebuilt VM at downloads?).
>
> As usual, follow the installation instructions, located here:
> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation
>
> Warning: recently, i found a bug in callback code.
> So, please don't try using smalltalk callbacks until i fix it :)
>
> Running tests should be safe (i disabled the test which causing VM crash).
>

> Bill
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko [[hidden email]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:12 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] NativeBoost meets Linux
>
> On 26 September 2010 21:09, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just uploaded a fresh snapshots of NB plugin and image code,
>> with necessary bits for using it under Linux.
>>
>> I don't know how to package Linux VM binaries, so you won't find a prebuilt VM
>> and should build it yourself (anyone wants to help me with that, so i
>> can add a prebuilt VM at downloads?).
>>
>> As usual, follow the installation instructions, located here:
>> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation
>>
>> Warning: recently, i found a bug in callback code.
>> So, please don't try using smalltalk callbacks until i fix it :)
>>
>> Running tests should be safe (i disabled the test which causing VM crash).
>>
>
> Update: bug was fixed after two days sitting with debugger and trying
> to convince gdb to let me debug and find the
> place with problem, which finished by looking to own code once again
> and finding what it doing wrong.
> Thanks DDD+gdb developers with not letting me simply debug my stuff,
> but instead train
> my brain's analytic capabilities. :)
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
>
>
>
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> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
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> Some of them even refusing to show me anything userful, or making is
> so hard, that its easier to simply read source code, rather than
> debugging. And debugging VM is not the same as debugging usual C
> program..
> Now add a native code into the soup, and you'll understand why all of
> these cool debuggers are incapable to help..
> unless you spent 100++ hours with them and mastered everything about debugger.
>
> From other side, there is not much complex things in code generator. I
> isolating things into small pieces of code
> (couple lines of smalltalk code per method), so there is nearly
> impossible to do a mistake.
> It is relatively easy to find a mistake at first run of the code.
>
> The bug which i fixed recently was in callback code, which is quite
> complex and is rather exception than common case
> (a method contains maybe 100 lines of code). And bug was a logical
> mistake, not something like code generator producing wrong
> instructions etc :)
>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko [[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:12 AM
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development
>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] NativeBoost meets Linux
>>
>> On 26 September 2010 21:09, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I just uploaded a fresh snapshots of NB plugin and image code,
>>> with necessary bits for using it under Linux.
>>>
>>> I don't know how to package Linux VM binaries, so you won't find a prebuilt VM
>>> and should build it yourself (anyone wants to help me with that, so i
>>> can add a prebuilt VM at downloads?).
>>>
>>> As usual, follow the installation instructions, located here:
>>> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation
>>>
>>> Warning: recently, i found a bug in callback code.
>>> So, please don't try using smalltalk callbacks until i fix it :)
>>>
>>> Running tests should be safe (i disabled the test which causing VM crash).
>>>
>>
>> Update: bug was fixed after two days sitting with debugger and trying
>> to convince gdb to let me debug and find the
>> place with problem, which finished by looking to own code once again
>> and finding what it doing wrong.
>> Thanks DDD+gdb developers with not letting me simply debug my stuff,
>> but instead train
>> my brain's analytic capabilities. :)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pharo-project mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>