[Vm-dev] Extending primitiveDirectoryEntry

[Alistair Grant]

Hi All,

I'm currently building the VM from the pharo-vm github repository using:

pharo-vm/opensmalltalk-vm/build.linux64x64/pharo.cog.spur/build/mvm

(or build.linux32x86)

Can someone kindly point me to how to build the Pharo 6 VM using
VMMaker?

Hopefully I can then figure out how to incorporate Dave's
DirectoryPlugin, and then figure out the path forward.

Thanks,
Alistair


On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:10:10PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>  
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 04:56:29PM +0000, Alistair Grant wrote:
> >  
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:37 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> > >     > On 21-04-2017, at 10:17 AM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > Am I missing anything?
> > > 
> > >     I think so; I urge you to consider working with Dave Lewis to see if it
> > >     might make sense to improve his DirectoryPlugin.
> > > 
> > > +1.
> > 
> > Sure.  I don't know anything about the DirectoryPlugin, and it looks 
> > like it isn't part of Pharo, but I'm happy to help.  It would be 
> > particularly good if David can help with the Windows side of things.
> > 
> > David?
> 
> 
> Hi Alistair,
> 
> Sure, happy to help. You can find the VM plugin at http://www.squeaksource.com/DirectoryPlugin.
> 
> A small plugin is actually fairly simple to do, so take a look at the
> DirectoryPlugin as an example, and we can either add the functionality
> you want, or just use it as a pattern to make a plugin that does exactly
> what you need.
> 
> I have been thinking of splitting DirectoryPlugin into two smaller pieces,
> one of which would be called PosixFileStatPlugin. If we do that, we would
> have a small plugin that addresses only the Posix file stat functions, and
> we could fill it out to have it answer the fields that you are interested
> in (st_dev).
> 
> Regarding Windows, I am not currently in a position to do Windows plugin
> development, but I do have an idea of the issues involved and I'm happy
> to help where I can. Note that Windows and Unix have different models to
> represent "files" and "directories" so there are some actual semantic
> differences on the different platforms. The Unix/Posix stat function comes
> from the world of Unix, so some of the concepts may not completely line
> up with the Windows model. The best references I have found for this come
> from the Microsoft technical documentation (I do not have a link right now,
> but it is all available on the web).
> 
> Dave
>