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

[Andreas Raab]

Very interesting. Can you roughly say what needs to do to get the Squeak 
VM into NaCL?

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 5/4/2011 8:18, 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
>