On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK only the mac vm supports Alien.
>
>
> More correctly, Alien fully supports only IA32.  The data manipulation part
> of Alien is cross-platform.  Call-out and call-back support only exists for
> IA32, although callback support is pretty easy to provide for all platforms.
> Michael Haupt is looking at extracting the cross-platform part, so that
> should be available generally.  I'm looking at integrating Alien marshaling
> with the FFI and at supporting Alien style callbacks.  In any case it is not
> a lot of work to get this stuff done.
>

I mean there's no vm with Alien support available for windows and 
unix/linux.

Levente