Dear any-time ckeen
On 4. Feb 2022, at 10:10, Christian Kellermann ckeen@pestilenz.org wrote:
- Christian Kellermann ckeen@pestilenz.org [210210 17:09]:
I want to find my way around the FFI module and how to use it in squeak. No let's step back. I want to use a a binding to libsodium form Tony (https://www.eighty-twenty.org/2013/06/11/nacl-for-squeak-and-pharo) and ended up using the Crypto-Nacl-HernanMoralesDurand.13.mcz package as the most recent one from Tony seemed to be Pharo's FFI syntax, as Tobias suggested to me.
However each of the supplied tests return a 'module not found error' on my 64 bit Linux Squeak 5.3+updates with the bundled VM.
So I tried the Unix examples there and none of those work either, so before I dig deeper into this I'd like to get some kind of re-assurance of what I should expect to work on this particular setup.
The FFI Tests from the bundled package all pass though.
So my questions are:
- Are the Unix FFI examples supposed to work?
- Is the Crypto-Nacl package I want to use recent enough for the FFI?
- Is the documentation in swiki still up to date for squeak 5.3?
- What's the logic for searching and loading the shared object to bind to
and where do I have to look in the opensmalltalk-vm code?
Dear future C-Keen and archive googlers,
To answer my own question here using my own build opensmalltalk-vm solved the issue, since the FFI plugin that came with the release bundle did not seem to work.
Thanks for the info! and Thanks for sharing, even after this time :D. Could you share which vm bundled the non-working FFI plugin? Best regards -Tobias
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