VMMaker( Re: [Squeakfoundation]KCP & 3.6)

[Andreas Raab]

>     Did I miss something ?

No, I did. Namely a rule in the make file to regenerate the list of exports
when any of the two change.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeakfoundation-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeakfoundation-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] 
> On Behalf Of PhiHo Hoang
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:48 PM
> To: Discussing the Squeak Foundation
> Subject: Re: VMMaker( Re: [Squeakfoundation]KCP & 3.6)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>     Talking about VMMaker, I recall someone suggested that
> >>     the plugins code could be generated just once and be used
> >>     as either internal or external plugins.
> >>
> >>     What's the status of the review on this proposal ?
> 
> > VMMaker does this for a long time already. It's all in the 
> build flags
> which
> > effectively tell the build process which plugins to compile 
> internally and
> > which ones to compile externally. Have a look at the generated
> "plugins.int"
> > and "plugins.ext" file.
> 
>     Just downloaded 3.4.4 source from SourceForge.
>     Looked inside 'plugins.ext' and found 'SqueakFFIPrims',
>     and made a decision to have this plugin as internal.
> 
>     'SqueakFFIPrims' was moved to 'plugins.int'.
> 
>     Now I have Squeak.exe with 'SqueakFFIPrims' builtin.
>     This is cool.
> 
>     Just for fun, 'FontPlugin', 'Mpeg3Plugin', RePlugin' were moved
>     to 'plugins.ext' together with 'SqueakFFIPrims' for another build
>     and got undefined references to
> 
>         1/- 'FontPlugin_exports',
>         2/- 'Mpeg3Plugin_exports'
>         3/- 'RePlugin_exports'
> 
>     These 3 plugins can no longer be built as external ?
>     'SqueakFFIPrims'  could be slided in and out with ease.
> 
>     Did I miss something ?
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     PhiHo.
> 
> 
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