Making a pluggable primitive - basic questions
Brad Fuller
brad at sonaural.com
Sun Jan 15 23:09:01 UTC 2006
Cowdery, Bob [UK] wrote:
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>>Tim
>>Thanks for the pointers. There seems to be a problem with the swiki
>>but I will take a look when it's up. A few comments in-line.
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>>>bob,
>>>I am in NO WAY an expert here, but this helped me:
>>>http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/writingPlugins.html
>>>
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>>>and this helps from the new blue book with this chapter:
>>>http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu:8888/squeakbook/uploads/greenberg.pdf
>>>
>>>
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>Brad
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>Thanks for the pointers. I was trying to follow your first ref which led
>me into trouble as it missed out some things like what to inherit from.
>The PDF however was useful and I have managed to create myself a 'C'
>file. Of course like everything it's out of data as it inherits from
>InterpreterPlugin not SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin and the method it
>uses, 'translate' no longer exists but I found 'translateInDirectory'
>seems to be the one to use. I guess having got my 'C' I now need to
>figure out how to build it. We is getting there though..
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>Bob
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oh yeah... I believe TestInterpreterPlugin has been renamed
SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin.
Configuring and building the VM was the hardest thing for me to get
going. I first tried to build the whole VM before I tackled creating a
plugin. Then, when I got the VM process building down, I moved on to a
plugin. I took little steps. And.. I still ain't walking.
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