--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:

> From: Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Launching squeak (etoys, scratch) on Ubuntu
> To: peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1:43 AM
> Jerome Peace wrote:
> > Hi Matej,
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply and your information.
> > 
> > I tried wading in but it got much deeper than I really
> want to go.
> > 
> > I don't think I want to contact Jordan until I
> know what I want to ask of him. 
> > 
> > I did find out the Jaunty Jackalope comes out
> tomorrow. So I wonder if squeak will have sound then. I
> suspect not.
> > 
> > Would you know why the squeak vmplugins are getting a
> ".so" suffix and what that means?
> 
> Files with ".so" suffix in Linux represent
> dynamically linked libraries.
> You can think of them as DLL from Windows.
> 
> I haven't studied SqueakVM code and I haven't
> worked with VMMaker but,
> unless I am wrong, external plugins for SqueakVM are built
> as
> dynamically linked libraries.

Ah. Thank you.

The etoys plugins do not have that suffix. And the squeak vm seems not to care whether it is there or not.

I did an experiment tonight. I copied into my home directory all the ubuntu distribution squeak (vm)plugins. Then I copied in the vm-sound-ALSA plugin from the etoys (vm) plugins. 
I made a launcher that pointed to my newly created directory and was able to launch sqeuak with sound.

So that one patch could solve the problem plaguing everyone.
So nearly there.

Cheers, -Jer