Compiling an External Plugin
goran.krampe at bluefish.se
goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Tue Mar 9 23:23:34 UTC 2004
Hi James!
"James Gjerde" <jgjerde at contrarymotion.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build a very simple external plugin to the vm on windows =
> 2000. I created a small .c file after looking at some samples, included =
> it inside of its own directory with the same name inside the plugins =
> directory, and added the plugin name to the plugins.ext file. I Then =
> tried to build it by running the build batch file which executes the =
> makefile and nothing happens, no new plugin.
>
> I want to create everything in C, I do not want to use the VMMaker. I am =
> using version 3.6.2 of the vm that i got from sourceforge. Any pointers =
> on how to build an external plugin hand written in c would be greatly =
> appreciated.
>
> Jamie
A plugin must have a counterpart class inside Squeak (I think). It can
be very shallow though.
Using VMMaker doesn't mean that you can't write the actual plugin in C
(instead of Slang). VMMaker "glues" stuff together. So my advice is to
use it.
regards, Göran
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