After finding the "official" download for the IAB32 plugin binary at
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1360, comment #3, attachment
squeakVMWithAlien.zip, I could run a first test of JNIPort in Squeak 4.1 on
Windows XP SP3. 

It exhibited the same deadlock I saw on Mac OS X, and the deadlock went away
when I prevented finalization to run in parallel to the JVM startup by
lowering the priority of the finalizationProcess to 20. So the problem does
not seem to be platform dependent.

The JNIPort tests pass except for one failure because of the broken UTF-16
encoder (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7544) and three errors because
the function vsnprintf is not found in the standard library, but this is
only needed for a special callback hook of the Java virtual machine which
allows redirecting debugging output such that it can be traced in Smalltalk
instead being emitted on stderr.

I don't have the crashes you see. I just used the VM and IAB32ABI.dll which
are in squeakVMWithAlien.zip. What operating system do you have? Is it a 64
bit system?

Joachim

Am 13.06.10 14:46 schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
> That's bad news. I tried to start the JVM again with the following
> snippet:
> 
> | jvmSettings |
> JNIPortJNIInterface libraryFile: 'C:\Program
> Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll'.
>   jvmSettings := (JVMSettings new)
> name: 'JVM with ghost class generation';
> yourself.
>   jvmSettings usesGhosts: true.
>   jvmSettings jniPortSettings useJNIHelperLibrary: false.
>   jvmSettings runtimeSettings classpath:
> '.;C:\Users\Levi\Desktop\SQUEAK\Squeak4.1-win32\JNIPort.jar;C:\Users\Levi\Desk
> top\SQUEAK\Squeak4.1-win32\JNIPort-Tests.jar'.
>   Cursor execute showWhile: [JVM newWithSettings: jvmSettings].
> 
> But it crashes:
> 
> Current byte code: 98
> Primitive index: 1060
> 
> Loaded plugins:
> C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
> IA32ABI 1 May 2010 (e)
> LocalePlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> B2DPlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> BitBltPlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> SecurityPlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> FilePlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> LargeIntegers v1.5 29 April 2010 (i)
> MiscPrimitivePlugin 29 April 2010 (i)
> 
> The Smalltalk Stack:
> 289028824 JNIVTableMethod>call:
> 289027948 JNIPortVTableClient>call:withArguments:
> 289027828 JNIPortVTableClient>call:with:with:
> 289027736 JNIPortJNIEnv>EnsureLocalCapacity_capacity:
> 289027644 JVM>initializeLocalCapacity
> 288899024 JVM>initializeFromSettings:
> 288898932 JVM class>newWithSettings:
> 288898672 UndefinedObject>?
> 288898580 BlockClosure>ensure:
> 288898488 Cursor>showWhile:
> 288897964 UndefinedObject>?
> 288890960 Compiler>evaluate:in:to:notifying:ifFail:logged:
> 288890868 TextEditor>evaluateSelection
> 288890776 BlockClosure>on:do:
> 288890684 TextEditor>evaluateSelection
> 288890592 TextEditor>doIt
> 
> Any ideas how I could start it without crashing?
> 
> 
> Levente
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Joachim Geidel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>