Thank you. I thought the pharo vmbuilder way is only for cog-vms, and the traditional way for the interpreter vm would still work. There is a vmmaker chapter at http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/Virtual-Machine/Building/VMMakerTool
2013/11/29 p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> > Hi Nicolai, > > Question1 > > The Primitives you mention is a class variable. > Put your cursor on it and hit the blue "C" button on the right of the > Nautilus code pane to see where it is used. > > You'll notice that it is initialized in DiskStore class>>useFilePlugin > > useFilePlugin > Primitives := FilePluginPrims new > > FilePluginPrims in turn provides an interface to the real file plugin. > > e.g. > FilePluginPrims >> size: id > "Answer the size of this file." > > <primitive: 'primitiveFileSize' module: 'FilePlugin'> > self primitiveFailed > > So, class variables are WrittenLikeThis and you may thing that it is a > class. But it is either a class variable or a global (e.g. Display, > Transcript) > > In a workspace, try: Display class <printIt> Transcript class <printIt> > > You'll see the real classes. > > When using spotlight for example, you'll never find anything if you type > Display for example. Even if the completion will propose something to you > (hey, someone fixing this?) > > > > > Question2 > > If you want to load VMMaker, you have to do it from the GitHub directions. > > There is a step where you do: > > cd image && ./newImage.sh > > and it loads all you need and you end up with the generator image. > > I've been using it in my fork https://github.com/philippeback/pharo-vm > and the canonical repo is https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > > Follow the directions of the README.md and you'll be ready with ease. > If you use OSX, it is working very smoothly. > Windows will require some more fiddling but there is nothing stopping you. > > The generator already has VMMaker in. > > Now, please bear in mind that the PharoVM isn't the same VM as Squeak > uses, so, the process is not with the Morphic based VMMaker tool (green > thing) where you select plugins etc. > > Here, you are going to use the PharoVMBuilder which does all of the > automation. > > ./pharo generator.image eval 'PharoVMBuilder buildWin32' > > will generate all CMake files, all Slang based files etc. > > I plan to do a video of all the steps very soon. This will help. > > Now, the VMSimulator isn't fully operational in the PharoVM, I am working > on getting it right. > At this point, it executes bytecodes without problems, but we need to port > some more code to the new transcript, filesystem etc. > Just a question of doing it. I am looking at that, hopefully this will > work in december. > > > Hope this clarifies the situation for you. > > Enjoy, > Phil > > > > --- > Philippe Back > Dramatic Performance Improvements > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 > Mail:p...@highoctane.be | Web: http://philippeback.eu > Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback > Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos > > High Octane SPRL > rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium > > Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ > Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - > http://spamcast.libsyn.com > Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value > Added Reseller > > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@web.de> wrote: > >> Looking at the code for DiskStore>>basicEntryAt: >> I find this code: >> "Primitives lookupDirectory: encodedPath filename: encodedBasename)" >> What is this "Primitives" not a class? I am suprised there is some code >> that I can not find the source for. >> >> Ok, it has something to do with vm primitives, and I know that code like >> <primitive: 'primitiveDirectoryEntry' module: 'FilePlugin'> >> is in the vmmaker-package for FilePlugin. >> >> BTW it is terrible hard to load vmmaker in a "normal" image. Now I use >> the generator.image from pharo http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/. >> But even in this image it is not possible to load the vmmaker tool. >> >> >> >
