[Vm-dev] how to add FTPlugin

[laurent laffont]

Without problems it's not fun :). For VMMaker I use
the unix-3.11.3.2135-vmm.tar.gz image found on http://squeakvm.org/unix/

First I need to change FTPlugin.c because build process cannot fint
<tttables.h>. With
#include <freetype/tttables.h>
it works. But it may comes from my distribution (ArchLinux, although I have
built several packages without problems).

If the plugin is configured as external, it's not loaded when I run last
pharo image. I don't know if I need to explicitly load a plugin (and how ?).

If I put the plugin as internal, linking fails:
Linking C executable squeakvm

FT2Plugin/libFT2Plugin.a(FT2Plugin.c.o): In function
`primitiveGetFaceCharIndex':
/home/lol/sandbox/pharo/vmmaker/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-src/unix/src/vm/intplugins/FT2Plugin/FT2Plugin.c:666:
undefined reference to `FT_Get_Char_Index'

FT2Plugin/libFT2Plugin.a(FT2Plugin.c.o): In function
`primitiveNewMemoryFaceFromExternalMemoryAndIndex':
/home/lol/sandbox/pharo/vmmaker/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-src/unix/src/vm/intplugins/FT2Plugin/FT2Plugin.c:1448:
undefined reference to `FT_New_Memory_Face'

I suppose it does not find  libfreetype.so (which is in
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so on my machine) ? I don't know how to specify lib
path with squeak build process...

Cheers,

Laurent


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM, laurent laffont
<laurent.laffont at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:25:42PM +0100, laurent laffont wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm a real newbie on vm stuff. I've managed to compile squeak vm
>> 3.11-3.2135
>> > on Linux. Now I would like to add FTPlugin as Pharo needs it, but I
>> cannot
>> > find where to get it nor  how to include it in the build process.  :(
>>
>> Hi Laurent,
>>
>> Are you using VMMaker to generate your sources? You will need to do
>> this in order to add another plugin such as FTPlugin. If you need
>> help with this, just ask.
>>
>> John, will need to correct me if the following is not right, as I have
>> not looked at FTPlugin in a while and I know he has done recent work
>> to update it for 64 bit issues.
>>
>> Assuming that you are using VMMaker, then you just need to add FTPlugin.
>> First load package FreeType from here:
>>  MCHttpRepository
>>        location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/FreeTypePlus'
>>        user: ''
>>        password: ''
>>
>> Then load FreeType-Plugin from here:
>>  MCHttpRepository
>>        location: 'http://source.impara.de/freetype'
>>        user: ''
>>        password: ''
>>
>> For reference, here are the repositories for plugins that I know about
>> (and I'm sure it is not all up to date, so corrections are welcome):
>>  http://squeaksource.com/VMMaker/update-dtl.2.mcm
>>
>> Once this is done, you should be able to open a new VMMaker window,
>> or click the "Rescan" button on a VMMaker tool that is already open.
>> Look for "FT2Plugin" in the left hand pane, and drag it over to
>> either the "Internal Plugins" or "External Plugins" pane, depending
>> on how you want to build it (probably external would be a good choice
>> for this plugin).
>>
>> >From there you should be able generate sources, and the FT2Plugin
>> will be included in the next build.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
>
> Big thank you !!  I'll try this.
>
> Laurent
>
>
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