[Vm-dev] Is there a way to compile StackVM from XCode?

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:57 PM, John M McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> There are some changes that are not integrated.
>
> readImageFromFileHeapSizeStartingAt
> sqAllocateMemory
> sqImageFileRead
>
> See the Squeak VMMaker source for the change sets needed to alter the
> header for readImageFromFileHeapSizeStartingAt
> and the new logic for sqAllocateMemory & sqImageFileRead that let's you
> mmap the image file in sqAllocateMemory and not assume you'll read the
> entire file into memory in sqImageFileRead
>
>
Hi John. Where are exactly these changes you are talking about
(sqAllocateMemory & sqImageFileRead )

thanks in advance,

Mariano


>
> On 2010-12-10, at 10:11 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Yep, the iOS StackVM is on the trunk, but still not compiling out of the
> box (at least for me...). I'm working on that now :)
>
> Cheers,
> Esteban
>
> El 10/12/2010, a las 2:49p.m., Eliot Miranda escribió:
>
> Hi Mariano,
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi eliot. I am using CoreVM.xcodeproj  to compile a CogVM. I have
>> integrated several of my own changes that I used to have in standard vm into
>> cog...As expected, I have several errors/crash and so I thought that a first
>> step would be to make it work with StackVM and then in Cog...
>>
>> So, I want to compile and debug the StackVM using XCode. I tried using the
>> CoreVM.xcodeproj but it seems it is prepared for CogVM. For example, it
>> expects de files cogit.c and cogit.h  althought they are not generated when
>> creating a StackVM.
>>
>> My question is, is there somewhere a .xcodeproj for the stackVM? or some
>> option inside the CoreVM.xcodeproj   to say that I want to compile a StackVM
>> ?
>>
>
> Take a copy of the macbuild directory, call it e.g. macstackbuild, and
> point the new CoreVM xcode project at ../stacksrc instead of ../src, and to
> compile gcc3x-interp.c instead of cogit.c and gcc3x-cointerp.c and you
> should be able to build a stack vm.  You can do this either by editing the
> CoreVM.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj file by hand (it has UUIDs for files so it
> can be tedious) or using Xcode itself (it has an arcane way of specifying
> include paths and #defines, so it can be tedious).
>
> John McIntosh has already built a stackvm and is using it routinely on the
> iPhone.  I'm not sure if the build directory or xcode project is in svn, but
> knowing john it probably is.
>
> HTH
> Eliot
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mariano
>>
>>
>
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