[Vm-dev] building intel mac VM: mactypes.h not found

[John M McIntosh]

Well first the issue with type sensitive file names can only be  
solved by doing what you did and attempting to compile on a case  
sensitive
HFS+ system.

The Squeak VM for powerpc is compiled using the 10.3.9 SDK with a  
target deployment of 10.2.8, in order for the VM to run on 10.2.x system
Although no squeak developer might actually be using such a systme,  
many schools are saddled with such old software.
In this case the VM is weak linked to the frameworks and at run time  
we determine what to do.

Currently the only features used in 10.3 includes:

a) A call to swap a background squeak VM to the foreground, however  
this is a specialized use of Squeak for which I don't know if anyone  
is using.
    There is no alternate choice, but since it's a specialized use of  
squeak, no-one has complained.

b) A set of calls to determine where the mouse is on a mouse down.  
10.3 provides a nice feature where we can ask where the mouse, like  
in the content
of the window, versus the title bar etc.   The fallback is to use  
histroical code that gets the window's content bounding region and  
check that for inclusion.

c) A set of calls to do dynamic loading in the unix plugin/module  
loading. In this case we fall back to using the 10.2 code that was  
written for the unix VM.

d) A set of calls to set the display mode, a specialized squeak  
prmitive that alters the resolution of the main display. For 10.2 we  
fall back to using the 10.2 code, where as for 10.3 there is  a nice  
clean api to use instead.


Lastly the real test is of course to compare a current "offical" VM  
bytecodes (many iterations) to your numbers to see if they are similar.


On May 2, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Damien Pollet wrote:

> On 03/05/07, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> For the issues between 10.3.9 and 10.4, in XCode, at the bottom of  
>> Project / Edit Active Target / Build / Deployment / All Settings
>> Change SDKROOT_ppc = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/ to  
>> MacOSX10.4.0u.sdk.
>>
>> Might solve some problems compiling.
>
> What is the theoretical difference between the SDKs, as far as Squeak
> is concerned ?
>
> I fiddled with that and I can't exactly remember what I finally put in
> there. After the case issues (e.g. IOKit/HID/IOHIDLib.h should have
> been IOKit/hid/IOHIDLib.h), I had to comment out a couple of mentions
> to exupery somewhere, and the VM built.
>
> This is on a 2GHz MacBook (1st generation, Core (not 2) duo, and I  
> get:
>      0 tinyBenchmarks '356050069 bytecodes/sec; 7603848 sends/sec'
>
> I'll ask for my certificate at ESUG 2007 :-)
>
> Now, on to writing plugins.
> -- 
> Damien Pollet
> type less, do more [ | ] http://typo.cdlm.fasmz.org

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