[Vm-dev] how to add FTPlugin

laurent laffont laurent.laffont at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 17:15:46 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:25:42PM +0100, laurent laffont wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a real newbie on vm stuff. I've managed to compile squeak vm
> 3.11-3.2135
> > on Linux. Now I would like to add FTPlugin as Pharo needs it, but I
> cannot
> > find where to get it nor  how to include it in the build process.  :(
>
> Hi Laurent,
>
> Are you using VMMaker to generate your sources? You will need to do
> this in order to add another plugin such as FTPlugin. If you need
> help with this, just ask.
>
> John, will need to correct me if the following is not right, as I have
> not looked at FTPlugin in a while and I know he has done recent work
> to update it for 64 bit issues.
>
> Assuming that you are using VMMaker, then you just need to add FTPlugin.
> First load package FreeType from here:
>  MCHttpRepository
>        location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/FreeTypePlus'
>        user: ''
>        password: ''
>
> Then load FreeType-Plugin from here:
>  MCHttpRepository
>        location: 'http://source.impara.de/freetype'
>        user: ''
>        password: ''
>
> For reference, here are the repositories for plugins that I know about
> (and I'm sure it is not all up to date, so corrections are welcome):
>  http://squeaksource.com/VMMaker/update-dtl.2.mcm
>
> Once this is done, you should be able to open a new VMMaker window,
> or click the "Rescan" button on a VMMaker tool that is already open.
> Look for "FT2Plugin" in the left hand pane, and drag it over to
> either the "Internal Plugins" or "External Plugins" pane, depending
> on how you want to build it (probably external would be a good choice
> for this plugin).
>
> >From there you should be able generate sources, and the FT2Plugin
> will be included in the next build.
>
> Dave
>


Big thank you !!  I'll try this.

Laurent
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