I succeeded to do it by encapsulating the C routine as a DLL and doing an FFI call from my image (as suggested by Guille).
I also tried to perform the nativeboost call by creating my structures in Pharo. The function in Windows that can be used to retrieve mac address in Windows: GetAdaptersInfo <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365917%28v=vs.85%29.aspx> that accepts a PIP_ADAPTER_INFO <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366062(v=vs.85).aspx> structure. I subclassed NBExternalStructure to define this struct and the other used by it in the image but my NB call returned with 87 code (Invalid parameter) and it was impossible to debug. However, I would like to make this thing work to understand what went wrong. With ProcessWrapper, I could not load the classes essential for making the plugin work. HTH, Usman On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > As a complete newb to VM building I found this fairly straight forward (on > a Mac btw). > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > cheers -ben > > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Usman Bhatti <usman.bha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 03:55:47PM +0200, Usman Bhatti wrote: >>> > 1/ OSProcess: I tried (PipeableOSProcess command: 'ipconfig /all') >>> output. >>> >>> I have used http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/ProcessWrapper >>> successfully >>> back when I was on Windows using some now-ancient version of Pharo. >>> >> >> I had initially discarded the idea of using this project because it >> required a plugin and the information of the plugin was outdated on >> squeaksource. However, having evaluated superficially the complexity of >> doing it with nativeboost (because too many external c struct involved in >> the call), I would like to see if I am better off using this wrapper. >> >> I loaded it with: >> >> Gofer it >> url: 'http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/hernan/ProcessWrapper/main'; >> package: 'ProcessWrapper-Core'; >> package: 'ProcessWrapper-Plugin'; >> package: 'ProcessWrapper-Tests'; >> load. >> >> But the plugins wont load because it requires the >> class SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin and apparently this file is a part of >> the VMMaker. Is there any recent config for VMMaker in Pharo because this >> one looks outdated: >> http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/Virtual-Machine/Building/VMMakerTool/ >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> Pierce >>> >>> >> >
