On 28 September 2010 01:05, Fernando olivero <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2010, at 10:20 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > >> On 27 September 2010 17:36, Fernando olivero <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Igor, great news that NativeBoost is available in Linux. >>> >>> In the installation page, in steps 1 and 2 you specify how to create a >>> plugin/vm . >>> The outcome is the vm for linux with NativeBoost support? >>> >> >> Its not a full instruction how to build a vm. >> First, you must download the sources and have an image with vmmaker. >> This is described on http://squeakvm.org/unix/devel.html page. >> >> Then you need to download small patch from NB site >> svn checkout http://nativeboost.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ >> nativeboost-read-only >> >> and copy patched files to unix platform-specific sources. >> >> In image with VMMaker, you can load NBInstaller , and then do >> NBInstaller installPlugin. >> >> Before generating VM/plugins source code in vmmaker, don't forget >> about setting target platform for plugin: >> >> NativeBoostPlugin setTargetPlatform: (NativeBoostConstants >> linux32PlatformId). >> >> >> Now open VMMaker, include NativeBoostPlugin into internal plugins list, >> and you ready to build a VM. >> > > Thanks for the detailed info Igor. > > I think the web page would benefit from adding this extra info. > Ok, i will add this.
>> Yes, building VM is somewhat tedious procedure, but once you have >> everything set up, >> it don't takes much time anymore. >> > > ok, maybe what we could have is an ready made image for each OS. ( with the > above steps already performed) > so people just press the "generate" button. > I can provide an image with VMMaker + NB plugin, if you want. I running linux in virtual box, and had a problems with OpenGL, so i had to disable it & exclude everything which using it (B3DAcceleratorPlugin) from build, as well as some other plugins, which for one or another reason didn't worked for me. So, it could be not the same VM you wanna use on your box. :) >> >>> Is there a prebuilt vm for linux available? >>> >> Yes, on my PC :) but i don't know how to package it. >> >>> Fernando >>> >>> >>> pd: When would it be available for Mac OSX? How can we help? >>> >> Well, since i don't have Mac right now, i can't build & test VM and plugin. >> >> I just added a necessary patch to platforms/Mac OS/sqMacMemory.c >> in plugin's svn source at google code, >> which is needed to make plugin execute native code. >> >> (Make sure that you building plugin with Mac platform id). >> >> The rest of stuff should be done at image level: >> - create a subclass of NativeBoost, like NativeBoostMac32 >> and implement missing functionality. >> You can use NativeBoostLinux32 as a guide to follow. >> >> I think that for someone, who knows mac platforms well, it could take >> maybe a day to >> make a working port. >> > > Ok, i'll do that ( in the not so distant future). > Just try to build a VM with plugin. And once it can run a native code, the rest is a piece of cake :) I can give you detailed explanation, what you should implement/override to complete NB bootstrap on Mac, once you will be ready. > Fernando > >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Igor Stasenko AKA sig. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
