It's true, for using Alien VMMaker it's not necesary.  

I think because he wants to build an Alien Plugin for Linux.

Fernando

pd: By the way, Tudor and I are working on a ConfigurationOfAlien. 


On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> this is strange I thought that just loading
>       AlienLoader load (it was pre gofer)
>       from the Alien source
> was loading it without having to load VMMaker
> 
> why do we need VMMaker for using Alien?
> 
> Stef  
> 
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:42 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
>> My understanding is VMMaker should work with Pharo
>> Look in the archives for Gofer and VMMaker
>> 
>> Once you've built a VMMaker image you need to load the Alien plugin logic. 
>> This might be loaded by previous gofer scripts, otherwise:
>> 
>> "add Alien Support Packages"
>> gofer squeaksource: 'Alien';
>>       addPackage:'Alien-VMMaker-Support'.
>> 
>> IF all else fails follow the manual process via: 
>> http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/Mac%20OS/vm/Documentation/readme.txt?rev=1984&view=auto
>> I note Balloon 3D might be optional. 
>> 
>>      Install Balloon 3D via the SqueakMap package Loader,
>>      Install FFI  & Klatt via MC
>>      
>>      MCHttpRepository
>>          location: '
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Ladrillos
>> '
>>         user: ''
>>         password: ''
>>      
>>      install FFI via  FFI-Kernel-ar.7
>>      and install KLATT via Speech-Klatt-edc.1
>> 
>>      Install VMMaker-dtl.120 or higher from
>>      MCHttpRepository
>>              location: '
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/VMMaker
>> '
>>              user: ''
>>              password: ''
>> 
>>      Install Alien-VMMaker-Support-John M McIntosh.6 or higher from
>> 
>>      MCHttpRepository
>>              location: '
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien
>> '
>>               user: ''
>>               password: ''
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2010-01-10, at 7:31 PM, 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 :)
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
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