<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is a test to see if there is still aproblem responding to Eliot’s message (my ISP wouldn’t let me respond directly but I could respond in private.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you can see this message, it means that the problem has corrected itself.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">L<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" class="">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Lawson,<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:56 PM LawsonEnglish <<a href="mailto:LEnglish5@cox.net" class="">LEnglish5@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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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.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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?</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br class="">
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