[squeak-dev] Will Newspeak be callable by external programs?

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Feb 9 01:25:20 UTC 2009


On 8-Feb-09, at 3:35 PM, askoh wrote:

>
> Thank you for your time and attention, John. Let me recap to make  
> sure I
> understand.
>
> I create a plugin.dll.
> The CAD calls plugin.dll.
> The plugin.dll starts up Squeak.
> Squeak then uses FFI to connect to the running plugin.dll.

Well since you are building a custom VM based dll you can use the  
primitive interface to get at memory within the dll

>
> When the CAD invokes a command to plugin.dll, the plugin.dll passes  
> it to
> Squeak which then returns the answer via the plugin.dll. This can be
> repeated indefinitely until program exit.
>
> FYI, I plan to use C# .Net for plugin.dll.
>
> All the best,
> Aik-Siong Koh
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