RE: Porting to Xbox

Great job on getting started!

I will look into getting goo on something like darcs so that interested
people can send me patches etc.

I wonder what is involved in getting boehm collector running on xbox?  

I will look into writing a precise gc but I will say that one nice thing
about using a conservative gc is it's nice interoperability with C.  I will
think about a simple solution to at least get started.

jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Graham
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 1:06 AM
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> Subject: [Googoogaga] Porting to Xbox
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just got goo .155 up and running on the Xbox.
> 
> Similar to Chris Double's experience on DS, I haven't gotten the Boehm
> GC running, so it's just revectored to use malloc and leak terribly.
> 
> The changes were pretty straightforward:
> - _MSC_VER != WIN32: a few places, nothing major (Xbox uses the MSC
> compiler)
> - getenv is not supported on Xbox
> - bignum nuked
> - I did very simple hacking of io/%port.c as stdio isn't well supported.
> - also, for whatever random reason, nmake doesn't seem to be able to
> handle %system.c as a file name, so I had to change that to system2.c.
> Perhaps you could use __ (or something) instead of % for those files?
> (yeah, that sucks)
> - there'll probably be some more changes for path/files as the Xbox
> stuff is a bit unusual.
> 
> I got as far as the banner, and "goo/user 0<=", but I haven't actually
> written any code to receive input from a host PC to pass it to goo. I
> suppose it's already run some init code by that point, so it's
> probably more or less working?
> 
> So, I guess my new #1 request for future goo development would be a
> precise, speedy garbage collector that's as portable as the rest of
> goo. :-)
> 
> It's awfully nice weather here right now so I think tomorrow will have
> to be a beach day, but once I get a chance and do some better
> input-communication code, I'll tidy up the changes and send along a
> patch if anyone is interested.
> 
> scott
> 
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