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<p>Hi Marcel,</p>
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<p>what is about "Installer new merge: #ffi", should this work too? :-)</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 28. September 2021 17:47:50<br>
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<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Cannot load FFI on Squeak 6 alpha 20608/pi</font>
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<div>Please use this to install FFI:</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Metacello new</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><span style="white-space:pre"></span>configuration: 'FFI';</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Unfortunately, ConfigurationOfFFI has outdated Metacello-load-code. "seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello" has not been working for ages. Yet, "http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/ss/metacello" is still operational.</span></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 28.09.2021 17:42:26 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p>
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<div>> [...] <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">wants to fetch Gofer from </span><a href="http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello" title="Klicken, um in einem neuen Fenster oder Tab zu öffnen
http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;cursor: pointer;color: blue">http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"> which
seems to be dead. Bit of a problem. [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Woah ... these days are quite challenging ... here is a Trunk image that smalltalkCI uses, which has Metacello pre-installed and can be updated without having to rely on the bootstrap
code on that (dead) Squeaksource instance:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Now so far as I can see it appears that the initial # in front of the <cdecl is no longer accepted? Is that the case?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">I don't recall that it was ever supported. What should it mean? I checked the senders of #pragmaSequence in Squeak 5.2 and couldn't find any support for "#<cdecl:"</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Best,</span></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 28.09.2021 16:27:13 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:</p>
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> On Sep 27, 2021, at 11:36 AM, tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org>wrote:<br>
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> Trying to load FFI to check my old GPIO hardware driving code. <br>
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> It needs FFI. FFI has a ConfigurationOfxxxx. Load that.<br>
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> Run `ConfigurationOfFFI load`<br>
> Nothing - because it is trying to do the #ensureMetacello thing and wants to fetch Gofer from http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello which seems to be dead. Bit of a problem.<br>
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> If I dig a bit I find that it seems we want to load ConfigurationOfFFI>>#version20:<br>
> Loading the 'FFI-Pools-mt.31' , 'FFI-Kernel-mt.180' , 'FFI-Libraries-mt.2' & 'FFI-Callbacks-mt.25'; seems to work, then 'FFI-Tools-mt.37' is ok.
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> Try to run the FFI tests and BOOM! So evidently sometihng isn't terribly happy.<br>
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> Going through all the install again to at least try my actual package results in a syntax error
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> id: i i2cClose: handle<br>
> "Disconnect from the i2c device, freeing the handle etc.<br>
> returns 0 if ok, otherwise GpioBadHandle"<br>
> #<cdecl: long?nothingmoreexpected-="">"'i2c_close' (long ulong) module: 'pigpiod_if2'><br>
> ^self externalCallFailed<br>
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> Now so far as I can see it appears that the initial # in front of the <cdecl isnolongeraccepted?thatthe="">
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I’m surprised it ever was. Is this some pre pragma syntax I’m ignorant of?<br>
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Indeed Tim, follow the syntax in the FFITestLibrary. Lots of examples there.<br>
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> tim<br>
> --<br>
> tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim<br>
> A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.<br>
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