In message 084bae8050d961234080c30af687f51a@hp.com Ian Piumarta ian.piumarta@hp.com wrote:
On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:
It loads an image, runs it ok, garbage collects, moves windows etc. Must be ok.
Cool.
(Did you make a 64-bit VM and run the 64-bit image too?)
Nope; no 64bit machine so I can't really do anything useful with it. If I was being paid I might feel like spending the money for such a machine, yadda yadda. Send money.
The other thing we (desperately) need is a set of radio buttons in VMM to select:
- generate 32-bit VM
- generate 64-bit VM
- generate both
with (3) appending a '32' or '64' to the 'path to generated sources' string.
Could work out of the box for you (on unix) and me (on RISC OS) with relative pathnames in the makefiles. Not certain about what paths are in win32 & mac makefiles so such a change might require makelife editing. I imagine people are capable of that once they know what is changed...
I'm not sure about a 'both' button though. With having to re-init OM for each form it wouldn't be doable to simply write out a 32b followed by a 64 b version of each file in turn. It would have to be; do one version of all requested work (remember you can ask for entire vm, just the core+internal, just the external plugins, an individual plugin) and then re-init OM and repeat.
Of course, you can script it easily enough for batch processing; VMMaker has always been scriptable since it was originally written for exobox to do overnight automated builds.
Stick somethng like:- ObjectMemory initBytesPerWord: 4. (VMMaker default sourceDirectoryName: 'somewhervalid/src32' ; initializeInternal: #(BitBltPlugin MiscPrimsPlugin FilePlugin) external: #(SocketPlugin ZipPlugin B2DPlugin) generateEntire. ObjectMemory initBytesPerWord: 8. (VMMaker default sourceDirectoryName: 'somewhervalid/src34' ; initializeInternal: #(BitBltPlugin MiscPrimsPlugin FilePlugin) external: #(SocketPlugin ZipPlugin B2DPlugin) generateEntire. in a buttonmorph script. Modulo the lineend issues you can even use the #setPlatName: method to do cross- 'compilation' which might be useful for batch building and compiling. Given the vile mess of file streams and naming that currently exists it would probably be simpler to make some shell script to do the lineend munging for dos & mac trees.
tim -- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Useful random insult:- Been one too many times through the wormhole.