[Vm-dev] CMake for Windows?

[laurent laffont]

easy_squeakvm here http://github.com/lolgzs/easy_squeakvm.

It's github so you can fork it easily (I would love squeakvm sources on
github :). Don't hesitate to ask for write access.

Cheers,

Laurent Laffont

http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/
http://magaloma.blogspot.com/


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Geoffroy Couprie <geo.couprie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is the latest set of files for CMake:
>> http://eleves.ec-lille.fr/~couprieg/divers/changes-16-05-10.tar.gz<http://eleves.ec-lille.fr/%7Ecouprieg/divers/changes-16-05-10.tar.gz>
>> (you have to remove platforms/win32/vm/config.h to make it build)
>>
>> I tried to remove the dependency on the Squeak-win2-tools package. The
>> Direct3D code still uses a lot of DirectX 7 structures, and the recent
>> MinGW toolchain provides DirectX 8, so the B3DAccelerator plugin
>> doesn't build right now. If it's ok, I'll send other patches to make
>> it work with the new version. Otherwise, it's possible to modify
>> config.cmake for B3DAccelerator to use DirectX 7.
>>
>> Could these patches be included now? The Unix VM builds without any
>> problem, so it can become the main way to build it (just replace
>> platforms/unix/cmake/configure by platforms/cmake/configure in the
>> tutorials). There may still be some problems with the Windows build,
>> but I'll send more patches once these are pushed in the svn :)
>>
>>
> Hi Geoffroy. This is cool work. I cannot help you in the details of how to
> commit that in SVN as I have no idea. Listen to David.
>
> Now...I have a couple of ideas:
>
> 1) regardless that, it would be really really cool if you can document all
> this in the pharo collaborative book. As you can see there is already a
> chapter for VM
>
> http://book.pharo-project.org/book/Virtual-Machine/
>
> and the windows part is empty:
> http://book.pharo-project.org/book/Virtual-Machine/Building/BuildVMOnWindows/
>
> So...we can write the two possibilities to compile in Windows: the standard
> one and this new one using CMake.
> You can start writing the one of CMake :)
> If you want, please just let us know and we create a user for you.
>
> 2) In addition, I think it would be a good idea to have a Git for scripts
> for the VM. If Squeak VM developers like them, they can also include it in
> the svn.
>
> Laurent Laffont already has a git repository with scripts like
> easy_squeakvm or something like that. So, you may want to commit your code
> there too.
>
> 3) What about integrating like easy_squeakvm  with this ?  or do a
> easy_squeakvm  version of CMake for winwows ?  I would love to do for
> example:
>
> ./easy_squeakvm.sh --os=Windows  or ./easy_squeakvm.sh --os=Unix
>
> 4) Would be  really great to have a Screencast about how to compile windows
> with CMake :)
>
> Cheers and continue pushing.
>
> Mariano
>
>
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Geoffroy
>>
>
>
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