[squeak-dev] Re: FFI load script no longer works ....

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Dec 23 16:21:04 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-21, at 23:58, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 December 2012 22:46, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Benoit,
>> 
>> yes, indeed,
>> 
>> (Installer repository: 'http://source.squeak.org/FFI')
>>  install: 'FFI-Pools';
>>  install: 'FFI-Kernel';
>>  install: 'FFI-Tests';
>>  install: 'FFI-Win32';
>>  install: 'FFI-MacOS';
>>  install: 'FFI-Unix'.
>> 
>> No longer works with 4.4-12320.
>> 
>> It used to work two or three months ago...
> 
> You need the "allow underscore selectors" preference set to load the
> FFI. I can't remember the magic to do that, but it ought to be part of
> the install script.
> 
> frank


This appears to be only because a gazillion Windows constants got added to the Win32 examples. To me it looks like it tries to provide an actual API now, instead of just being a demonstration of how FFI works. 81 of the 85 defined constants are unused. Is this good?

- Bert -



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