[squeak-dev] Re: A plea for OSProcess on MS Windows

John McKeon p3anoman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 18:12:03 UTC 2012


Shaun,
The windows constants defined in the latest FFI-Win32 package have
embedded underscores so you have to go to Tools/Preferences, select
Compiler and check : Allow underscores in selectors. After doing that in a
fresh 4.3 image it appears to load without incident.

HTH
John



On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Shaun Johnson
<shaun at slugfest.demon.co.uk>wrote:

>  On 13/07/2012 18:12, Herbert König wrote:
>
>> Hi Shaun
>>
>>> That would be wonderful but Win32Shell doesn't seem to be in my image.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Shaun.
>>>
>>>
>> clicking "help", "Extending the system" gets you a workspace which has
>> the first entry to load FFI. Alas in my (trunk derived) image on Cog VM
>> loading FFI doesn't work. In Squeak 3.6 times I used what Andreas described
>> to start Windows programs. As far as I remember one could not retrieve a
>> return value so I synchronised via writing files.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately that doesn't work for me in a stock 4.3 image (from
> the All-in-One download). I get 'Error: WS is multiply defined' from:
>   ClassBuilder>>**validateClassvars:from:**forSuper:
>
> The SqueakDebug.log file is attached.
>
> I can (attempt to ;-) report this on Mantis if that is worthwhile.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shaun.
>
>
>
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