[Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
I was trying to get Pharo-LibVLC working on Mac. The following is copied from a GH issue[1]: > I have VLC installed via Homebrew cask, the formula for which simply > installs the dmg. I > first tried supplying a full path to the dylib that the VLC app uses >

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Alistair Grant wrote > The same message is returned whether the module itself isn't found, or > if one of its dependencies can't be found. Good to know. I wonder if we can't provide more detailed error messages here... Alistair Grant wrote > On linux you can check dependencies with `ldd

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Ben Coman wrote > One catch that has confused me in the past, is when the system caches that > it couldn't find the external module, > so even when I copyied it to the VM folder or got the path correct, it > continued to fail until I restarted the Image. Great gotcha! We should add that to the

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- This is the most annoying thing about UFFI - the library search seems to opaque and I don't understand how it works. So far I am finding best practice is to find the library yourself and then provide the exact file path you want. That way, you can actually prompt the

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 00:26, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > I was trying to get Pharo-LibVLC working on Mac. The following is copied > from > a GH issue[1]: > > > I have VLC installed via Homebrew cask, the formula for which simply > > installs the dmg. I > > first tried supplying a full path to the

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Sean, On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 17:26, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > > I was trying to get Pharo-LibVLC working on Mac. The following is copied from > a GH issue[1]: > > > I have VLC installed via Homebrew cask, the formula for which simply > > installs the dmg. I > > first tried supplying a full

Re: [Pharo-users] [vwnc] Parsing in Smalltalk

2019-12-03 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Steffen Märcker wrote > I can send you that code. Awesome. I'll email you. Although, I wonder how relevant this is given your answers down below. Are there many grammars available in Xtreams syntax to make this useful? Also, what is the license? Can I add it somewhere on GH under MIT (with

[Pharo-users] some sort of mentor help ?

2019-12-03 Thread Roelof Wobben via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hello, do not know if this is the right channel but is there someone or some book which can help me learn how to approach complex problems like the AdventOfCode challenges , I try that but im stuck because most of the time I have the feeling I

Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI: Debugging "External module not found" Error

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Coman
> > > On Dec 3, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Sean P. DeNigris > wrote: > > > > Alistair Grant wrote > >> The same message is returned whether the module itself isn't found, or > >> if one of its dependencies can't be found. > Secondary dependencies are awkward to track via command line. > > > > Good to

Re: [Pharo-users] some sort of mentor help ?

2019-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I looked at the site and I knocked out day 1. These are little programming puzzles you can do in a playground. Day 1's first puzzles is literally a 1 liner. The story telling obfuscates the problem and can make the problem seem harder than it is. You have to learn to