VM Building questions

> Gentlefolk,
>
> I've started playing with VM building and I've got a few questions,  
> perhaps observations for which I was unable to find answers/
> confirmations.
>
> Using: Win32 system, v1545 out of SVN repo; VMMakerTool
>
> The following plugins don't have an platform specific files:  
> FileCopyPlugin and InternetConfigPlugin
> The following plugins fail when VM generation is attempted.
>
> BalloonEnginePlugin, BitBltSimulation, DeflatePlugin, FFTPlugin,  
> HostWindowPlugin, JoystickTabletPlugin, JPEGReadWriter2Plugin,
> LargeIntegersPlugin, Mpeg3Plugin, RePlugin, SerialPlugin,  
> SocketPlugin, SoundCodecPlugin, SoundPlugin.**
>
> I did not attempt to "generate" MacMenubarPlugin, MIDIPlugin, or  
> TestOSAPlugin.
>
> Is this expected, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> regards,
>   Dave
>
>
> **All fail with in the same spot...(indicated in red below) with a  
> MessageNotUnderstood. spec ccgDecleareCForVar: argName.
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------
> handlePrimitiveDirective: aStmt on: sStream
>
>     isPrimitive := true.
>     fullArgs := args.
>     locals addAll: args.
>     args := OrderedCollection new.
>     fullArgs with: parmSpecs do:
>         [:argName :spec |
>             declarations
>                 at: argName
>                 put: (spec ccgDeclareCForVar: argName)].
>     aStmt isAssignment ifTrue:
>         [declarations
>             at: aStmt variable name
>             put: (rcvrSpec ccgDeclareCForVar: aStmt variable name).
>          sStream nextPutAll: (self
>             statementsFor:
>                 (rcvrSpec
>                     ccg:        SmartSyntaxPluginCodeGenerator new
>                     prolog:  [:expr | aStmt variable name, ' _ ',  
> expr]
>                     expr:     aStmt variable name
>                     index:     (fullArgs size))
>             varName: '')].
>
>     "only add the failure guard if there are args or it is an  
> assignment"
>     (fullArgs isEmpty not or:[aStmt isAssignment]) ifTrue:[self  
> generateFailureGuardOn: sStream].
>     ^true.
>

> Bert,
>
> I'm using what I think is a fully updated version of 3.8.1 -- used  
> the full image off the squeak.org site, then updated via squeak map.
>
> -- dave
>
> On 10/5/06, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote: The  
> #ccgDecleareCForVar: methods were moved out of the system image
> into VMMaker recently. The 3.8 image should still have them, IIRC. Or
> use a more recent version of VMMaker that includes them. So - what
> image version and VMMaker version do you have?
>
> The plugins with missing platform files were not yet ported to Win32.
> MIDI should work fine there, however.
>
> Note that hacking the VM is not exactly considered a beginner's topic
> among Squeakers. You might want to subscribe to the VM-Dev list for
> that.
>
> - Bert -
>
> Am 05.10.2006 um 20:42 schrieb Dave Raymer:
>
> > Gentlefolk,
> >
> > I've started playing with VM building and I've got a few questions,
> > perhaps observations for which I was unable to find answers/
> > confirmations.
> >
> > Using: Win32 system, v1545 out of SVN repo; VMMakerTool
> >
> > The following plugins don't have an platform specific files:
> > FileCopyPlugin and InternetConfigPlugin
> > The following plugins fail when VM generation is attempted.
> >
> > BalloonEnginePlugin, BitBltSimulation, DeflatePlugin, FFTPlugin,
> > HostWindowPlugin, JoystickTabletPlugin, JPEGReadWriter2Plugin,
> > LargeIntegersPlugin, Mpeg3Plugin, RePlugin, SerialPlugin,
> > SocketPlugin, SoundCodecPlugin, SoundPlugin.**
> >
> > I did not attempt to "generate" MacMenubarPlugin, MIDIPlugin, or
> > TestOSAPlugin.
> >
> > Is this expected, or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > regards,
> >   Dave
> >
> >
> > **All fail with in the same spot...(indicated in red below) with a
> > MessageNotUnderstood. spec ccgDecleareCForVar: argName.
> > #
> >  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------------
> > handlePrimitiveDirective: aStmt on: sStream
> >
> >     isPrimitive := true.
> >     fullArgs := args.
> >     locals addAll: args.
> >     args := OrderedCollection new.
> >     fullArgs with: parmSpecs do:
> >         [:argName :spec |
> >             declarations
> >                 at: argName
> >                 put: (spec ccgDeclareCForVar: argName)].
> >     aStmt isAssignment ifTrue:
> >         [declarations
> >             at: aStmt variable name
> >             put: (rcvrSpec ccgDeclareCForVar: aStmt variable name).
> >          sStream nextPutAll: (self
> >             statementsFor:
> >                 (rcvrSpec
> >                     ccg:        SmartSyntaxPluginCodeGenerator new
> >                     prolog:  [:expr | aStmt variable name, ' _ ',
> > expr]
> >                     expr:     aStmt variable name
> >                     index:     (fullArgs size))
> >             varName: '')].
> >
> >     "only add the failure guard if there are args or it is an
> > assignment"
> >     (fullArgs isEmpty not or:[aStmt isAssignment]) ifTrue:[self
> > generateFailureGuardOn: sStream].
> >     ^true.
> >
>