[Vm-dev] Loading VMMaker

[Ben Coman]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Just to refresh my skill on compiling the Squeak VM (I'd like to play
> with Kinect; I found some efforts like: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/
> but want to make a plugin that is suitable for my need.)
>
> Let us say I'd like to compile a VM and my plugins on Mac, what are
> the right steps?  (I had some experiences with VMMaker but that was
> before I need to specify Interpreter class name in the VMMakerTool,
> for example.
>
> I added VMMaker repository in the Monticello browser, and opened it.
> As trying to just load VMMaker shows a warning of missing FFI
> constants, I turned to 'update' and load update-dtl.17.mcm.  Is this a
> right thing to do?
>
> But then, trying to load update-dtl.17.mcm onto the VM and image in
> the 5.0 all in one package, the VM crashes.  Do you see this?
>
> I'd like to get the files and image set up so that I can compile an
> external plugin, preferably for Cog/Spur.  Some up to date guidance
> would be greatly appreciated.
>

Use a combination of...
* https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/blob/Cog/CONTRIBUTING.md
* http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/compiling-the-vm/
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