does Squeak work on new macintel?

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Jan 30 18:57:27 UTC 2006


Ah, just in time to lend or give said MacBook to me so I can confirm  
if it works or not....

However I will note that a number of things need to happen for the  
Carbon VM to be converted. I don't know if it runs under Rosetta on  
the machine, no-one has yet said.


a) Getting a mac intel machine to test on.
b) Time on my side to do the work.
d) Coding up a MacIntel FFI assembler interface.
e) Cross checking endian issues
f) Recompiling a bunch of standalone plugins (aka MP3)

Likely at the same time we'll switch to unix file names with HFS+  
alias support and enable the ability to load unix libraries versus  
plugins.

I believe for the unix version

a) Rewrite of the screen display update logic to handle byte swapping  
(likely)
b) The FFI interface
c) Recompiling a bunch of standalone plugins (aka MP3)

On 30-Jan-06, at 8:28 AM, Jason Rogers wrote:

> On 1/30/06, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I would like to know if Squeak works on the new machines from apple
>> based on intel.
>
> but your Subject line said VisualWorks. ;)
>
> I don't know if it does, but when my laptop comes, I will give a short
> experience report if you would like.
>
> --
> Jason Rogers
>
> "Where there is no vision, the people perish..."
>     Proverbs 29:18
>

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