[VM][OS X] Is the FFI plugin available?

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Jan 22 07:22:57 UTC 2002


>Is the FFI plugin for OS X available somewhere? I saw a message from 
>John McIntosh saying he'd built one, but I don't see it anywhere I 
>know to look.
>
>In the absence of a prebuilt FFI plugin, does anyone know how to 
>build this plugin using Project Builder? Yesterday I managed to 
>build a functional VM under Project Builder (thanks to all who 
>contributed to making this relatively easy and documenting it!) but 
>the FFI plugin has code that seems specific to (I'm guessing) 
>CodeWarrior.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Martin

I think the issue was how about one for Carbon.

However the issue now is what about building one for Project Builder.

Alas I've not built one. But mmm since you've some interest would you 
like to build one? Take a look at the mpeglib bundle to see how I 
build a bundle to be used by Squeak VM 3.2.1, that was easy.

Also note that Andreas actually wrote the powerpc FFI, strange as 
that might seem. Here we think he only knows intel stuff, but wait 
didn't MS give us WinNT on the powerpc at some point so I guess it's 
ok he also knows ppc assembler.

Actually I bet you really should look at the unix ffi stuff because 
after all this *is* a BSD unix system you are fiddling with.


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