[Vm-dev] hacking a 3.9 VM

[Andreas Raab]

Did you go "by the book"?

http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/win32/HowToBuild.txt?rev=1530

If so, let me know what didn't work.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Raymer David-fdr017 wrote:
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> Gentlebeings,
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> First off, I would like establish that I’m brand new to squeak – I’d 
> like to use it to develop some prototypes of my research work; and to do 
> that I’m going to have get into the depths of VM.  I seem to have 
> encountered my first Balrog …
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> I thought that I would start with building my own 3.9 VM (nothing like 
> putting something together to figure out how it works).  So I grabbed 
> the latest from SVN (after looking at the branches and tags, I did not 
> see a 3.9 “approved” fileset). I tried to build this … and failed.
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> So, I then tried using VMMaker 3.8b6, the 3.9g-7061 image, on a 3.7 VM.  
> This gave me the files I was missing and after adding a few forward 
> declarations into the win32/vm fileset, I have that building.  Things 
> were going quite well until the B3DAcceleratorPlugin.  I seem to be 
> getting lots and lots and lots of “implicit function declarations” in 
> OpenGL and DX7 (d3) functions.
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> Can someone throw me a bone on how to go about building a 3.9 VM for a 
> Win32 platform?
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> Dave Raymer
> Motorola Labs, NSR CoE, NIRL Autonomics Research
> Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
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