[Vm-dev] vmmaker and plugins on squeak for raspberry pi

[tim Rowledge]

On 07-01-2014, at 1:14 PM, Juan <smalltalker.marcelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'm trying to develop squeak virtual machine on Raspberry pi.
>   I need to create a plugin to access the GPIO.
>  My problem is that the squeak of rbp not have the sources of the plugins
>  even brings vmmaker.
> 
> Someone suggested   try to download sources from squeakvm.org.
> But i don't know wich version is for raspberry pi, none is indicated for rbp.
> will be riscos version ?

The normal OS for Pi is Raspbian, which is a Debian linux derivative, so use the unix build setup. RISC OS might actually be more fun for developing a GPIO interface, being less of a pain when it comes to low-level hardware access - but not of use to anywhere near as many people.

I already explained in a message to you Dec 27th where you can get the source code and the current VMMaker and instruction. Which parts aren’t making sense or are not working?

My description -
>> You need the tools for C development on a Pi. You’ll need to apt-get etc for cmake, subversion & libX11-dev, plus possibly others I’ve forgotten.
>> 
>> The vm code is stored at squeakvm.org, read the pages there on how to svn checkout the right stuff, alsohttp://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2106
>> 
>> VMMaker is not  kept in the main image; it’s irrelevant to almost everyone and would be a waste of space. Use Monticello and try following http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177 to start off.


(Note to Dave - your swiki page - http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177 - is a tad out of date though mostly ok. I suspect some mentions of the complications caused by having the plain interp and two oscog variants in the one repository might be good.)


> a few questions:
> 
> 1) Which version of vmmaker  i have to use to build the vm of rapsberry?

http://source.squeak.org/VMMaker -> VMMaker (not VMMaker.oscog or VMMaker-oscog) BUT load it with the ‘update’ as described by Dave on http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177 and then update it as described.

> 2) Has vmmaker dependencies?

Only as handled in the ‘update’ configuration; that handles all of it.

> 3) how to load ? 

Described on  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177 as above

> 4) which is the order ?

n/a
>  5) which versions ?
n/a


tim
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