On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:38:55PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> Note that it doesn't (at the moment) actually compile the code. You will
> still have to do the appropriate magic incantations to invoke your
> compiler/linker/bit-mangler. With luck we will soon be able to do even
> this via that wonderful OS Process package David Lewis provided; perhaps
> with some extra clever help even generate the makefile dynamically?

I've been doing that with an older version of your VMMaker for quite
some time, and it works fine. You can automate the whole thing, but I
actually find it pretty convenient to just run make in a "squeak shell"
window just as if you were doing it from an xterm.

At the risk of reinventing the wheel yet again, I suspect that it
is easier and cleaner to build a replacement for "make" in Squeak,
rather than try to generate a makefile. I've done some work on this,
but it's not far enough along to show.  Note: I think that replacing
"make" is fairly straightforward, but "configure" is quite a piece
of work, and I don't know what to do about that.

Dave

p.s. Still looking for volunteers to help with the Windows and Mac
hooks for OSProcess...