Re: Strongtalk from scratch

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From: "prunedtree" <[email protected]>
To: "Strongtalk-general" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:27 AM
Subject: 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
>

    But then will you need a running Strongtalk VM + image to build the VM?
    Or did I miss something?

    Cheers,

    SmallSqueak

> 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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