On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> Do any of you know of an alien plugin for linux?  Is VMMaker alive and well 
> on Pharo?
>
> I am getting close to (perhaps) being able to move some number crunching onto 
> Pharo, but it will depend on external libraries and callbacks.  My reading 
> suggests that the existing FFI is unable to handle callbacks, and that 
> plugins are required.  Alien looks a lot closer to what I have working on 
> Dolphin.
>
> Unless Alien is pre-built, it appears that I am stuck with setting up 
> VMMaker??  That might not be all bad, because I am suspicious I might want to 
> use a plugin for OpenSSL, but that is (so far) a little further away.  I 
> would be happy to bypass that learning curve for a while longer :)

Building a vm with alien support is probably harder than writing a 
openssl plugin. :)


Levente

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