[Vm-dev] StackVM on general Unix ARM

[Esteban Lorenzano]

I just used sqUnixHeartbeat.c instead... in a long way, maybe Dimitri path is better :)

cheers,
Esteban

On May 22, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Dmitry Golubovsky wrote:

> 
> Pavel,
> 
> Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to compile StackVM for Raspberry Pi but I face some problems.
>> The biggest one seems to be the absence of High Res Timer Ticker. CogDroid
>> and iOS builds are for ARM too. How did you solve this?
> 
> By eliminating all asynchronicity from Cog and turning it into an
> event-driven VM.
> 
> See this for the general discussion:
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.vm.devel/6910
> 
> The message referred mentions StackEvtUnixConfig which may be your
> starting point.
> 
> You may follow the recommendations from
> 
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2012-May/010632.html
> 
> where your last (per these recommendations) step will be
> 
> sh ./generate.sh -headless StackEvtUnixConfig ### (instead of AndroidConfig)
> 
> I never polished this configuration, however it somehow ran on Linux.
> I believe it is still a CMake project (as opposed to the Android build
> where CMake stuff was eliminated).
> 
> You may also find this helpful:
> 
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2011-August/009209.html
> 
> which discusses some aspects of Morphic algorithms suitability for
> event driven VMs (although some of them may have been already fixed).
> 
> Hope this helps. Feel free to ask more questions.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry Golubovsky
> 
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