[Vm-dev] Would anyone object if I added optional building of the processor plugins to the Pharo builds?

[Guillermo Polito]

Ahh, I got confused with the explanation of the support libraries. I
re-read your email and I got what you meant on the first time.
Thanks for the change!

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:16 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Guille,
>
> On Jan 8, 2019, at 1:04 AM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Eliot,
>
> I see no objection myself, on the contrary.
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:33 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Esteban, Hi All,
>>
>>     the Mac (and I *think* linux & Windows) builds are set up to not
>> build a plugin if any of the files specified by the PREREQUISITES variable
>> in the plugin Makefile do not exist.  For example,
>> in platforms/iOS/plugins/BochsX64Plugin/Makefile there are the lines
>>
>> BOX:=../bochsx64
>> PREREQUISITES:=$(BOX)/cpu/libcpu.a $(BOX)/disasm/libdisasm.a
>> $(BOX)/fpu/libfpu.a
>>
>> So if the support libraries are not built the plugin will not build. If
>> developing the VM one wants to build the plugins and one would build the
>> required support libraries. As VMMaker.oscog is being hosted both in Pharo
>> and Squeak it would be most convenient if the Pharo build would include the
>> plugins.  The only change would be to add the processor plugins to
>> plugins.ext in the pharo.cog.spur build directories.
>>
>
> Out of ignorance, what are the processor plugins? libcpu, libdiasm and
> libfpu? or BochsIA32Plugin, BochsX64Plugin, GdbARMPlugin...?
>
>
> The plugins are the ones that end in Plugin and the support libraries
> (actually libcpu.a et al) are the ones beginning with lib (and ending in
> .a, for “archive”).
>
>
> I'm checking the squeak osx makefiles to see what the differences are and
> I spot the second set only.
> Adding those to the plugin.ext should suffice?
>
>
> Yes (which has been done).
>
>  Cheers,
> Guille
>
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
>>
>
>

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Guille Polito

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