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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>I fear this could be a frequently discussed topic, but I did not know where to start else.</p>
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<p>In the web, you can find the following instruction in order to load FFI at several places, amongst them the Swiki:</p>
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<p><span>Metacello new configuration: 'FFI'; load.</span></p>
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<p><span>If I do this in a fresh trunk image (#<span>19838) without any extra installs, I get a syntax error:</span></span></p>
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<div>ffiPrintString: aString</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre"></span>"FFITestLibrary ffiPrintString: 'Hello'"</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre"></span><cdecl: <span style="background-color: rgb(190, 190, 190);">
"Literal constant expected ->"</span>char* 'ffiPrintString' (char *) module:'SqueakFFIPrims'></div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre"></span>^self externalCallFailed</div>
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<p><span>This is at the very least confusing, I think :-) Are there any undocumented dependencies or something like this?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If I use the preference wizard instead, the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">installation succeeds. (It's not very convenient that it asks you for your initials during the installation, but this is only a small critique.
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I just wanted to inform you about that.</p>
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Best,</span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Christoph</span></p>
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