[ENH] VMMaker v2 first release now available

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sun Sep 23 13:16:14 UTC 2001


By now you should know how much I am prone to exaggeration.  I meant 404.
On Sunday, September 23, 2001, at 12:38  AM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> After far too long, we (John McIntosh and I) finally have a version of
> the VMMaker that should be usable by anyone. You too can at last earn
> that coveted VM Builder Certification! Think of the career enhancing
> properties that magnificent paper
> (http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/pooters.SqueakVMBuilderCertificate.pdf)
> will proffer!
>
> Basically, VMMaker is a fairly major rejigging of the vm code generation
> process that allows us to remove all those big strings from the image
> (saving something like 1/2 Mb in the process) and store them in a form
> very suited to a CVS (or other source control system) whilst providing
> a tool that allows easy reconfiguration of the vm and integrating all
> the platform specific code into a simple uniform tree. Consider it the
> vm side of the modularity tools.
>
> Note that it doesn't (at the moment) actually compile the code. You will
> still have to do the appropriate magic incantations to invoke your
> compiler/linker/bit-mangler. With luck we will soon be able to do even
> this via that wonderful OS Process package David Lewis provided; perhaps
> with some extra clever help even generate the makefile dynamically?
>
> The code is available at
> http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/pooters/sqFiles/deltas/VMMaker-3-1-version2.
> rel1.cs
>
> The accompanying 'platforms' tree which now contains all the static code
> including the legendary 'Cross' platform is available in a "checked out
> of cvs on linux" form, zipped, at
> http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/pooters/sqFiles/deltas/platforms20010922.zip
>
> Somebody that actually knows how to drive cvs as if they have a clue
> should please import this into our SourceForge partition. It seems to
> be workable on my linux machine (I have checked in & out via linux,
> Acorn and Mac) but that's about as far as my skill with cvs goes.
>
> So how do you use this? Simple; read the fine manual included in the
> project preamble. CVS checkout the platforms tree from SourceForge, file
> the changeset into an image (seems all ok anywhere from 4282 to latest
> 4343, no idea about earlier) and do 'VMMakerTool openInWorld'. Drag
> plugins from 'available' to either 'internal' or 'external'. Press one
> of the buttons. Wait....
> Resultant sources and assorted platform specific makefiles etc will
> appear in 'src' (unles you edit the appropriate text field) ready for
> you to do complier magic.
>
> Use the VMMaker, Luke.
>
> tim & jmm
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful random insult:- Been playing with the pharmacy section again.
>
>
>




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