>On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:56 PM LawsonEnglish <LEnglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
>>So, with Craig Lattas 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 Macs setup, the latst vesion of >>catalina isnt stable for FFI via dylib.



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best, Eliot