[Vm-dev] My gotchas, when building win32 vm

[Igor Stasenko]

Hello,

If you read the squeak-dev, i decided to build VM from the latest
sources available.
After few problems caused by changes in the trunk image, i finally was
able to load VMMaker and started building.

I followed instructions precisely (found in platforms/win32/docs):
- copied contents of  plaftorms/win32/build into <my own dir>
- set VMMaker output path to <my own dir>/src

- run from command line:
cd  <my own dir>
make

Here, the problems i ran into:

- OSProcess plugin for win32, seems like paths is not set correctly.

gcc -o ../.././obj/Win32OSProcessPlugin/Win32OSProcessPlugin.o -g
-mpentium -mwindows -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
-fschedule-insns2 -O2 -I. -Ic:/dx7sdk/include -I../.././src/vm
-I../../../platforms/Win32/vm -I../../../platforms/Cross/vm
-I../.././src/Win32OSProcessPlugin
-I../../../platforms/Win32/plugins/Win32OSProcessPlugin
-I../../../platforms/Cross/plugins/Win32OSProcessPlugin
-DWIN32_FILE_SUPPORT -DNO_SERVICE -DNO_STD_FILE_SUPPORT -DNDEBUG
-DLSB_FIRST -DVM_NAME=\"\" -DX86 -DSQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN -c
../.././src/Win32OSProcessPlugin/Win32OSProcessPlugin.c

../.././src/Win32OSProcessPlugin/Win32OSProcessPlugin.c:39:
FilePlugin.h: No such file or directory
../.././src/Win32OSProcessPlugin/Win32OSProcessPlugin.c:40:
SocketPlugin.h: No such file or directory

(i excluded it from build)

then, while linking:

- FT2Plugin (internal):  many undefined references to freetype library symbols
- FT2Plugin (external):  had to clean up a previously built .obj files
which left from my attempt of building internal plugin,  in order to
build .dll correctly

- QuicktimePlugin(internal): undefined references to  stQuicktimeXXXXX symbols.
(I remember that i had never ever got chances to make it working on my
win32 build. So i just excluded it from build).


Finally i having the built VM and two dlls: for FFI and freetype.  :)

-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.