Re: Strongtalk from scratch

Did you port it already ? if you haven't, i can help you remove all
dependencies on inline/external assembly.
After all we have a macro assembler in the VM, so we should use it
(that's what hotspot does too btw)

I'll start by getting rid of the COFF files for the win32 build. As i
said before, it's something fun to do.

prunedtree

On Apr 11, 3:48 pm, "Dave Raymer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I understand it, the situation is this:
>
> Images cannot yet be built from scratch.  Apparently there is still some
> voodoo in this space that Dave Griswold is working on.
>
> "Trunk Build VM " -- can be built from scratch only if you have a copy of
> Turbo Assembler from Borland, otherwise you need M$ Visual Studio, and you
> use the pre-provided COFF obj files
>
> There is a patch in the mailing archive that enables you to build the VM
> with MinGW under Windows, again using the COFF obj files provided by Thiago
>
> I am working on a "pure" linux port of the VM and having much fun with the
> assembler which someone else noted should be trivial to port -- I bow to his
> skills if to him, this is trivial.
>
> regards,
>    the other Dave.
>
> On 4/10/07, SmallSqueak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >        > > Does anyone know the status of "building strongtalk from
> > scratch" ?
>
> >        > What do you mean by "building smalltalk from scratch"?
> >        > Are you talking about building an image or the VM or both?
>
> >        > regards,
> >        >   the other Dave
>
> >        That should be both the VM and the image.
>
> >        The VM can already be built from scratch, can't it.
>
> >        Cheers,
>
> >        SmallSqueak
>
> --
> A man's greatest treasure is his wife, she is a gift from the Lord
> - Proverbs 18:22


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