Ok, after much mindless poking, cross checking and testing, retesting,
writing sunits today I can say the Alien FFI logic is mostly ported
into Pharo.
In the
http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien.html MC library
I would suggest someone with an eye towards "Compiler, CompileMethod,
ParseNode" carefully look at the changes in "Alien-Core" to ensure
I've not trashed some important part of the Pharo Compiler or Traits.
I can't say if the changes are destructive or passive?
you will find:
For VMMaker folks
Alien-VMMaker-Support which provides the changes to the latest
VMMaker from squeaksource to build a Alien aware VM.
Alien-VMMaker-Plugins which is the plugin logic
For users of Alien
Alien-Core-First - Load this first otherwise you'll get a parsing
error later
Alien-Core - Load this next, Compiler changes etc..
Alien-LibC - LibC support for os-x/unix/windows
Alien-CoreTest - SUnits
Optional stuff then is
Alien-MacOSX-Core - Objective-C interface
Alien-MacOSX-AppKit- Objective-C application api
Alien-MacOSX-Examples- Objective-C examples
Alien-Win32 - Windows examples.
Lastly load
Alien-Last-Class-Initialize - To ensure all the initializers were run,
just in case MC loses it's mind...
Oh and you need a plugin and a VM. It's midnight again and I don't
have one compiled up for distribution, Monday's chore...
Anyway you should be able to load the source code, point/learn about
how it's used.
Someone will have to build a Unix one, and a Windows one.
For the moment there is NO powerpc version since that requires a bit
of icky assembler. Same for the iPhone btw (icky ARM assembler).
On 23-Nov-08, at 4:20 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> the future looks shining :)
>
> Stef
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