[squeak-dev] Re: Why FFI is not included with latest squeak ?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Aug 22 02:48:34 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:12:45AM +0100, dimitris chloupis wrote:
> 
> Whats funny is that if you ask here at mailing list you get a lot of useful
> answer but those answers dont make it back to documentaion. People are bored
> making documentation but cant resist answering in malling list with often
> extremely detailed helpful info as Davind's pst which I think should be
> included with Squeaks onboard documentation.?
> 

Hi Dimitris,

The information that I provided on the mailing list is actually a shorter,
but more up to date, version of the instructions here:

  http://squeakvm.org/unix/devel.html

I completely agree with you on the importance of in-image documentation.
However, in this case it may be better to keep it on the web because most
of what I wrote is very platform-specific, and also specific to one flavor
of VMMaker and build procedure. As I am sure you have noticed by now, there
are several different ways to interface to external libraries, each with
advantages and disadvantages.

In any case, I hope you are successful in trying one or two of these
approaches and forming your own opinions :)

Dave



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