On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Usman Bhatti <usman.bha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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). > At least there was a way! Looks like this is the most controlled|debuggable way: - get it working with C code out of Pharo - make a bridge that can be used easily with FFI in a dll - use that from Pharo with proven FFI Would NativeBoost work with your dll? Should. 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. > Has this something to do with 32|64 bit library complications? Phil > > 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 required a plugin and the information of the plugin was outdated on 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
