On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:17:34AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I noticed that. :)  I did enable it when I compiled and still no dice..
> > I must be doing something wrong.
> > 
> > One difference I noticed between 2.9a and the 3.0/3.1 VM is that
> > the --enable-ffi=yes configure argument went away.  
> 
> As I said before, you don't have to "enable" FFI. Just get the plugin. You
> don't even need libffi because it's statically linked into
> SqueakFFIPrims.so.

I realize that, I was only referring to self-built VM's.  The 2.9a VM
configure did have such an option if you were building from source.
At one time I was trying to get FFI working on ARM, which is why I needed
to rebuild it myself.

Out of curiosity, how did you produce that log below?  


> 
> -- Bert
> 
> In case you don't believe me: This is a log of the X11 example:
> 
> tryLoading ./SqueakFFIPrims.so
> loaded:  ./SqueakFFIPrims.so
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(getModuleName, 135169408)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(getModuleName, 135169408):
>   build/squeak: undefined symbol: getModuleName
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(setInterpreter, 135169408)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(initialiseModule, 135169408)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(initialiseModule, 135169408):
>   build/squeak: undefined symbol: initialiseModule
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(primitiveCallout, 135169408)
> tryLoading ./X11.so
> not found
> tryLoading libX11.so
> loaded:  libX11.so
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XOpenDisplay, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XGetInputFocus, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XQueryPointer, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(primitiveFFIIntegerAt, 135169408)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XCreateGC, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XSetForeground, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XFillRectangle, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XDrawRectangle, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XSync, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XFreeGC, 1073836808)
> ioFindExternalFunctionIn(XCloseDisplay, 1073836808)
> 
> 
> 
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