[Vm-dev] re: hacking a 3.9 VM

[John M McIntosh]

Well Tim forgets that on the mac that the image name is UTF-8 and it   
has to be translated into the
character set the VM is using, simply returning the string *might* be  
good enuf, (sp). However likely that might not work well in Japan.


sq.h has

/* Image file and VM path names. */
extern char imageName[];
char *getImageName(void);


However it seems the interp C code has lapsed back into referring  
directly to the imageName string.
likely no one has tested this for a few years, but as a backwared  
compatible step the imageName string is setup when the imagename is  
calculated which is why it works.



On 7-Oct-06, at 12:55 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> When I do this I have a few strange issues: First, there isn't  
>>> any getImageName in that code (where does that come from?)
>> That was exactly the bit I was hoping you'd add so that other  
>> people can just compile out of the box :-)
>
> Sorry, but I mean the opposite: There doesn't seem to be any  
> reference to getImageName in the VMMaker generated sources. If I  
> grep interp.c for getImageName it comes up empty, and I don't get  
> any link errors either. Put differently, the current sources  
> compile just fine except from the two plugins exploding in my face.
>
>> All I can tell you there is that both appear to compile ok on OSX  
>> and the tablet plugin is ok on RISC OS (no b3d accel there).
>
> Odd.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

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