[Vm-dev] Re: Squeak VM port to Google Native Client

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Tue, 03 May 2011 23:18:04 -0700,
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   I'm playing with Google Native Client a bit and made a port of
> Squeak VM to it.  It is far from complete (even the state where
> backspace or Cmd-p etc. does not work, sound does not work, etc.), It
> now reached to the state where I can say the basic part of it is
> working.
> 
>   The source code is available at:
> 
>   http://github.com/yoshikiohshima/NaClSqueak
> 
> .  Also, f you have Google Chrome 11 beta available, try to turn on
> the Native Client on (by typing "about:flags" into the title bar) and
> access:
> 
>   http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/squeak/squeak.html
> 
> (The first try may take some time.)
> 
>   - It is gnuify-ed but we're still learning the JIT situation of
>     NaCl.  So, it' need some work to port Cog.
> 
>   - The image data is embedded as a C array in this executable.  You
>     can remove EMBEDDED_IMAGE_FILE flag off, and comment/uncomment the
>     corresponding part of squeak.html, it can load the image
>     separately via XMLHttpRequest of the browser.
> 
>   - There is some strange issue when you do fast drag the system
>     window.
> 
>   - As you can see, the source code is derived from the Unix VM.  It
>     was hard for me to write some CMake stuff to set it up for the
>     cross compilation.  A help to merge it back to the Unix code would
>     be greatly appreciated.
> 
>   - If Google takes over the world and all apps become a Native Client
>     (may be even other browsers^^;), this port may be useful^^;
> 
> -- Yoshiki

  I forgot to mention that:

    - You can generate 64 bit binary if you compile it, but I don't
      have any environment handy to test it.  Such test is also
      greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

-- Yoshiki