[Newbies] Squeak port

[tjohnson at iwu.edu]

The porting guide mentioned below got me going when I was porting Squeak to the Amiga a 
couple of years ago.  However, it is very dated.  To get the most out of that text's 
instructions, one should be working with (IIRC) the 3.2 image.  The text does not at all 
describe VMMaker, which is prevalent in more recent images, nor does it fully cover the 
changes in the event-handling subsystem (polling vs. events).  The rest of the information 
(re: the VM's internals) is pretty darned useful though.

You are right though, of course, that for going from one Unix-based system to another, one 
might not need to worry about some of the intricacies since the majority of the existing code 
should work across Unix platforms.

- TimJ

----- Original Message -----
From: Derek O'Connell <doconnel at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:19 pm
Subject: Re: [Newbies] Squeak port
To:  "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about	Squeak." 
<beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org>

> The unix source should compile ok. Check http://squeakvm.org/ for 
> info 
> and the following for good porting advice: 
> http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/uploads/porting.1.pdf
> 
> pascal.vollmer at nexgo.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to port Squeak to an embedded PowerPC/Unix-system 
> (Freescale PowerPC MPC5200BB/Linux). Do you know where I could find 
> documentation or advice?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Pascal
> > 
> > Pascal Vollmer
> > Email: pascal.vollmer at ieee.org
> > 
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