[Vm-dev] 64bits Pharo VM for windows

[Nicolas Cellier]

And currently
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/spur64src/vm/cogitX64.c
is generated for SysV only.
It's necessary to hack the CogX64Compiler SysV class var initialization and
generate a win64 specific cogitX64.c.


2017-03-19 20:34 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:

> Hi Clement,
> it's been a while since I last tested, but in a few words:
> - win64 use it's own ABI
> - we have to assign the registers differently than sysV
> - the experiments I did resulted in VM crashing early (before opening
> window)
>
> Nicolas
>
> 2017-03-19 20:29 GMT+01:00 Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Thank you very much for doing Nicolas. It is very important for many
>> Pharo users to use Pharo 64 bits on Windows.
>>
>> What are the problems you have when trying to build the VM with the JIT
>> that you don't have when building the stack VM ? Is it about API to make
>> the memory executable, is it about calling conventions ?
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> And the appveyor builds are green
>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/OpenSmalltalk/vm/build/1.0.579
>>>
>>> 2017-03-19 17:31 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've built a 64bits pharo.stack.spur VM for windows on my machine,
>>>> and I'm uploading the changes to opensmalltalk-vm in branch
>>>> build_pharo_win32_with_cygwin
>>>>
>>>> If the appveyor job correctly succeed, I will emit a pull request.
>>>>
>>>> The VM does not have the SqueakSSL plugin yet.
>>>>
>>>> The 64bits squeak/pharo.cog.spur JIT for windows is still to come,
>>>> but I did not work on it for a few months...
>>>> One thing at a time.
>>>>
>>>> Let's cross finger
>>>>
>>>> Nicolas
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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