[Vm-dev] VM Platform contribution (Plan9)

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Alex,

     exactly what issues have you had with the Plan 9 compiler and what are
the changes to VMMaker you had to make?  You may have already written a
message on this.  Of so, can you send me a link to it.  Otherwise it will
help me integrating to know.  The Cog VMMaker's translation-to-C subsystem
is quite different from the trunk VMMaker and straight-forward integration
is probably not possible.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alex Franchuk <alex.franchuk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 12/02/2014 07:54 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:58:02AM -0500, Alex Franchuk wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/01/2014 10:34 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>>
>>>>   On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Alex Franchuk <alex.franchuk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm at a stage of stability in my port of Squeak to the Plan9 operating
>>>>> system. I was wondering who I should contact, or where I should go, to
>>>>> either submit my work or get access to the SVN repository of platforms
>>>>> hosted at squeakvm.org. It didn't quite seem like the sort of thing
>>>>> that
>>>>> should be put on the Mantis bug tracker, but I could be wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any push in the right direction would be much appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>> If your port uses Cog then please send me a tarball of the files plus
>>>> some
>>>> description of any changes you had to make.  And thanks!!
>>>>
>>> Currently it does not use Cog, although that is actually my next step in
>>> development if I have enough time! It just uses the normal interpreter
>>> (as generated by VMMaker).
>>>
>>>  Hi Alex,
>>
>> I see that you have uploaded your Plan9-Compat.4.cs change set to the
>> Mantis
>> issue, thanks for doing that.
>>
>>    http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7821
>>
>> I think that you are working with a "trunk" VMMaker as your base. I may be
>> able to help by testing your changes first with Linux and an interpreter
>> VM.
>>  From there, I should be able to forward the applicable changes to Eliot
>> for Cog.
>>
>> I need to ask couple of questions so that I start from the right place:
>>
>> - Are all of the changes for Plan 9 compatibility in the change set for
>> VMMaker?
>> Or are there additional changes that need to be applied to the
>> trunk/Cross or
>> trunk/unix source code? If there are platforms files, please follow
>> Eliot's
>> suggestion of sending a tarball (or zip, or whatever is convenient). If
>> it is
>> not too large, please send it directly to the vm-dev list.
>>
>> - Which version of the VMMaker package did you start with? If you can
>> give me
>> a specific VMMaker mcz file that you initially loaded, or tell me what
>> Squeak
>> image you initially used, that would help. Or, try evaluating "VMMaker
>> versionString"
>> in your VMMaker image, and let me know what it says.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
> Hi Dave,
>
> To answer your questions:
>
> - I believe almost all of the changes in the change set are for VMMaker,
> although there is a change to the abstract SequenceableCollection object to
> add a doWithIndex:separatedBy: message.
>
> - The version of VMMaker that I started with was VMMaker-dtl.350, which I
> loaded from source.squeak.org/VMMaker into a Squeak-4.5 image.
>
> I'll wrap up the platforms code into a tarball and send it to Eliot (and
> the vm-dev list). Currently the platform code assumes that the FilePlugin,
> SocketPlugin, B2DPlugin, and BitBltPlugin have been generated as internal
> plugins with the interpreter code, I still need to make changes for it to
> intelligently generate the makefile based on the configuration (there are
> no autoconf tools in Plan9 so that will end up being some script). So I
> will probably be making more changes as time goes on.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>



-- 
best,
Eliot
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