[Cuis-dev] Big Fun on Linux was ( Updates to VectorGraphics and precompiled MacVM)

[Juan Vuletich]

On 6/2/2021 4:09 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan, Hi folks,
>
> I am a bit confused. Your E-Mail is from
> 2021-06-02, git log for VmMaker --
> immediately after a pull - says:
>
> commit abd3dc6a4e03cf25e0509956ec7d3a79f504a45f (HEAD -> main, 
> origin/main, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>
> Date:   Sat May 29 17:20:13 2021 -0300
>
>     C declare as unsigned char* for ByteArrays
>
> This isn't exactly "yesterday".

VectorEnginePlugin.pck.st is in the Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev repo, and was 
last commited with package version 1.19 on May 31st with commit message 
"Cleanup".

> Anyways, after some thinking I am sure the latest Haver Alpha 3 has an 
> old plugin.
> I did see the VmMaker update, but I did not
> think about the consequences.

The plugin is not (yet) part of VMMaker.

> Is there a way to ask the plugin about its
> version? Not everybody has a "strings"-command
> handy:

Yes.
VectorEngineWithPlugin pluginApiVersion
See senders and implementors.

> VectorEnginePlugin 21 May 2021 (e)
> ;*3$"
> GCC: (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0
> clang version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 
> d28af7c654d8db0b68c175db5ce212d74fb5e9bc)
>
> So yes, it is an older version of the plugin.
>
> I will build a newer version for Windows 64bit
> and Linux-AMD64.
>
> I still have problems with the
> Raspberry OS builds; 32bit builds end
> with an archive, but no executable is produced.
> This is also the case
> with the repo Ken provided.
> Admittedly I am to lazy to install a 64-Linux
> on one of my Raspberry Pi 4s.
>
> *If there is demand for a Raspberry Pi VM,
> please tell me, I will backport the plugin
> to a VM version with a working build system.*
>
> Please tell me, if there is demand for a 64bit
> ARM build.
>
>
> HTH and Best Regards,
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On 2021-06-01 21:02, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> Thanks for doing this Gerald!
>>
>> Yesterday I pushed some updates. A new plugin C code generation and 
>> VM rebuild is in order. Performance and memory usage improved.
>>
>> Can you please rebuild and publish?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>

Regards,

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