Hi Lawson,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:56 PM LawsonEnglish <LEnglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

> So, with Craig Latta’s help, I managed to build my own vm. I added back in
> the 5.3-19435 image and changes files, and sources file, and changed the
> plist appropriately and it works just fine.
>
> Yay!
>
> However, I never did get the distributed version to work. I can sorta make
> it work with enough swapping of files, but it eventually crashes on startup
> even though FFI to my own dylib is working.
>
> The unmodified distributed 5.3 all-in-work apparently ALWAYS eventually
> crashes onstartup after trying to load a dylib and then staving, if I do it
> enough times, but thus far the ones I built do not do this.
>

If you run with an assert 5.3 VM build do you see anything indicative?  And
are you saying that the 5.3 distribution also crashes on a recent VM?


> I can continue with my FFI experiments now (thanks everyone for their
> help), but unless something is very wrong with my Mac’s setup, the latst
> vesion of catalina isn’t stable for FFI via dylib.
>
>
> L
>

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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