[Vm-dev] re: hacking a 3.9 VM

[Andreas Raab]

Hm ... trying to go back to 3.8 to see if the problem is caused by 64bit 
updates wasn't successful either. First I updated to 3.8.1 which loads 
6735RemoveLeftoverVMMakerBits-38b4 and thusly removes a whole bunch of 
methods that are required by the version in the released 3.8 version. 
After noticing this (the hard way) I loaded VMMaker-38b4 which I thought 
would include these methods but it doesn't. Okay, so I reverted to 
3.8-6665 to generate the VM, only to run into one of those (foo 
isMemberOf: Symbol) issues from the post-m17n transition phase. That 
fixed I was almost capable of generating a new VM only to notice that 
you mustn't have the VMMaker tool or else loading a new Win32VMMaker 
class is being ignored. Took me a while to find that.

Finally, I was able to generate a new VM but failed immediately with 
compiling it because of conflicting definitions of byteAt: etc. So after 
spending a couple of hours on this I still don't know what causes these 
crashes.

Argh. This is a lot worse than I remembered.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> When I do this I have a few strange issues: First, there isn't any 
>>> getImageName in that code (where does that come from?)
>>
>> That was exactly the bit I was hoping you'd add so that other people 
>> can just compile out of the box :-)
> 
> Sorry, but I mean the opposite: There doesn't seem to be any reference 
> to getImageName in the VMMaker generated sources. If I grep interp.c for 
> getImageName it comes up empty, and I don't get any link errors either. 
> Put differently, the current sources compile just fine except from the 
> two plugins exploding in my face.
> 
>> All I can tell you there is that both appear to compile ok on OSX and 
>> the tablet plugin is ok on RISC OS (no b3d accel there).
> 
> Odd.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
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