Missing routines for 3.0 Unix VM: what's the status?

Stefan Matthias Aust sma at 3plus4.de
Wed Feb 7 22:18:44 UTC 2001


Ned,

At 12:32 07.02.01 -0800, Ned Konz wrote:
>I tried to make a 3.0 VM for Unix, hoping that I could just generate the
>Interpreter and Plugin sources and re-compile. However, that didn't seem 
>to  work. It looks like there's quite a bit of work that has been done 
>since  2.8pre5 that hasn't made it into the Unix VM sources yet.

Earlier this evening I (hopefully successfully) build a Solaris version 
which should probably compile on other unix platforms, too.

My list of undefined symbols was much smaller (don't ask me why) and I 
added the missing functions as stub methods so that their primitives will 
fail.  That means, no sound volume control, no drag and drop and no event 
handling yet.

I didn't start with the sourceforge sources but more current sources from 
Ian's web page Bert Freudenberg recommended to me.

I'm now at home and the sources are at my work but tomorrow I'll hopefully 
have something I can provide to others.

I don't care about sound or drag and drop at the moment, but I'd love to 
have event support on Unix - if I only would know what this means exactly 
for the code.  From looking at the mac sources inside a 3.0 image I 
couldn't really figure out what to do.  It seemed to me that even on the 
mac, the event support wasn't finished yet.

>Is it time to rev up the Sourceforge project again?

It would be great - to start with something easy - if the sources at source 
forge would be up to date.  I lost an hour or so trying to work with them 
until I eventually got the better ones.  Ian's new sources are much easier 
to use and well documented.  Thanks, Ian.

bye
--
Stefan Matthias Aust \\ Truth Until Paradox





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