Apologies, I was referring to the traditional FFI and forgot about the change to Alien. I'm sure it can be done similarly, perhaps someone else can give an example. Otherwise perhaps ProcessWrapper as Bill Schwab suggested.
Dave On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:48:37PM -0300, Carlos Crosetti wrote: > Thanks, please can you provide pointers on how to launch a external process > with Alien? > > Regards, Carlos > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David T. Lewis" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] OSProcess > > > > Yes, OSProcess is designed to work on Windows also. However, the > > functionality > > is limited on Windows and the plugin is not distributed with the Windows > > VM, so > > for most people this is not a practical solution. FFI is another > > alternative. > > > > Dave > > > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:53:30AM -0500, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > >> Carlos, > >> > >> OSProcess appears to be _designed_ to run on Windows (lots of code for > >> same), but I am not aware that it works there. The existing gnuplot > >> package uses OSProcess on Linux/Mac and ProcessWrapper on Windows, and I > >> have done the same thing when I need to run on Windows. > >> > >> I have seen no evidence that ProcessWrapper works other than on Windows; > >> if you find that it does, please make noise about that. I *think* I like > >> it better than OSProcess, but I do a lot more relevant work on Linux > >> where I can't use ProcessWrapper. > >> > >> Bill > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: [email protected] > >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos > >> Crosetti > >> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:46 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [Pharo-project] OSProcess > >> > >> > >> Hi, is rhe OSProcess designed to call out an external program from a > >> Windows vm? > >> > >> Regards, Carlos > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pharo-project mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
