Porting spoon's VM support

> Hi all,
>
> I've just finished getting Squeak running on the Neo1973 [1], an
> OpenMoko [2] open-source GSM cellphone. So far, I have the stock VM able
> to run stock images. In order to develop for the phone, I'd like to try
> out a spoonish approach, so I thought I'd try to get spoon running.
>
> I'm having trouble in two areas: cross-compiling an appropriate Flow
> plugin (I need the latest primitive sources) and building an appropriate VM.
>
> Could someone confirm for me that I will *not* be able to use a stock
> Unix Squeak VM, say 3.9-8, with Spoon and an appropriate Flow plugin?
> That is, are there mandatory changes to the core VM that need to be applied?
>
> Thank you,
>    Tony
>
> [1] http://www.openmoko.com/products-index.html
> [2] http://www.openmoko.org/
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>
> Hi Tony--
>
>> Could someone confirm for me that I will *not* be able to use a stock
>> Unix Squeak VM, say 3.9-8, with Spoon and an appropriate Flow plugin?
>> That is, are there mandatory changes to the core VM that need to be
>> applied?
>
>      That's right, you need to apply "spoonProcessorChanges.st" before
> generating interp.c, to get remote messaging support. Also, Squeak seems
> to have trouble on some Linux hosts with loading the released Flow
> shared library, due to differences in the pthreads shared library
> location. I'd be happy to help you with this.
>
>
>      thanks,
>
> -C
>
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> Craig Latta
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