I'm totally noob on FFI. Maybe the vm-dev mailing list is more appropriate
?  It seems there's actually some problems with it
http://n4.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?tpl=search-page&node=104410&query=ffi

On my machine, 20/21 FFI unit tests fails...

I haven't been able to build last revision of squeak-vm trunk.

Laurent Laffont


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>wrote:

> Laurent, all,
>
> If I may jump to conclusions a little, the 3.11-3 vm's changes break the
> loading of libraries, certainly to the point of being arkane.  Beyond that,
> LinuxODBC is transparent to it, so I am left wondering how it is suppose to
> work at all??
>
> The RC3 one-click image and vm produce very nice fonts on my Ubuntu laptop,
> but it retains the FFI/double defect, and from the naming of the plugins,
> must be based on a pre 3.11-3 vm.
>
> Is the plan to use 3.11-3 for the one-click?  If so, we need to do
> something about external libraries; at a minimum, LinuxODBC should work,
> whether by fully understanding how to use environment variables, or (as I
> suspect) getting the dlopen() call to work again.
>
> Another option is to identify the FPU related fixes and apply them to the
> current one-click vm.
>
> Any preferences?  Any success with 3.11-3 and LinuxODBC?  I'd be happy to
> be wrong about this.
>
> Bill
>
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