[Vm-dev] FT2Plugin stops working with latest version

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:48:18PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> On 4 October 2011 14:17, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:54:58AM -0300, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
> >
> >> 2) externalize OSProcess (yes... I don?t like to have it as an internal plugin)
> >
> > I think there was an issue on some of the Mac platforms that required
> > a compiler flag to force the compiler to make global variables visible
> > (for the environment vector, etc). Is that the problem here? I do not
> > have a Mac, but I'll try to help figure this out if I can.
> 
> If i remember correctly, a Cocoa VM using different entry point for
> main() function.
> or have some other differencies, so you cannot just pass argc, argv
> around, but you have to prepare them.
> 
> If you remember, i proposed to make an API for exposing these
> variables, so then not only OSProcess could access them
> but any other plugin, without need of hackish linking flags, which
> lead to confusion and too compiler/linker specific.

I do not recall for sure, but is there a hackish linking flag for this
that works on Cocoa?

Dave