Hi

I'm trying to build a plug-in and getting pretty lost at the moment. I
have found a few useful references but they are not complete enough for
me to follow. I have a simple piece of 'C' I want to integrate first
off, at least, the interface is simple. A couple of the methods don't
even have parameters so thought I would try those first. As I understand
it the process is this.

1. Create the smalltalk class to call the primitive. Something like
this:
	run
  		<primitive: 'primitiveRun' module:'PhasingDSPPlugin'>
  		^ false

2. Create the primitive code calling code in Slang dialect. Something
like this (I'm sure this is very incomplete/plain wrong):
	primitiveRun
		SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin doPrimitive: #StartStream
withArguments: #().

	Should I be using interpreterProxy here. Where does the
interpreterProxy instance get created.

3. Run Slang to convert (2) to 'C'. I know I need to use VMMaker and
should only need to convert this one method. I have looked at
VMMakerTool but don't know if this is the right thing to use. If it is
it's not clear to me how one gets a new plugin into the 'plugins not
built' list and the ones listed are not draggable anyway. Does my code
need to go into VMMaker-Plugins or is this just a convention? Also tried
cCodeGenerator cCodeForMethod but couldn't get it to work.

4 Assuming someone can put me right on (3) I then have to compile and
link (on XP by the way) for which I can use VisualStudio or Borland.
What do I compile/link against? I don't see any header files or libs in
the squeak distribution. 

5. Having got my compiled/linked code, not sure what form that should
take, is it object format, linked to a .lib or .dll. How do I register
it with Squeak so it knows how to play.

Sorry for so many questions but any help in moving forward, even a
little, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Bob
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