right i understand that. but i would not think that having the smalltalk
interface or not would interfere with building the dll from the makefile and
original vm source. i want to get the dll built first, then i will create
the corresponding smalltalk interface in squeak. thanks for the reply.

jamie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <goran.krampe at bluefish.se>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Compiling an External Plugin


> 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
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> > 2000. I created a small .c file after looking at some samples, included
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> > 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
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> > using version 3.6.2 of the vm that i got from sourceforge. Any pointers
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> > 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
>