On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:22:40PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 5 October 2011 17:18, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:52:49AM -0300, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
pd: Dave, please, please... if you have 5', can you see the BytesPerWord problem?
I am traveling a lot right now but I will try. I looked at it a briefly a couple of days ago and got myself confused :/
Igor, perhaps you can confirm - when you build a Cog VM with FreeTypePlugin, and when the plugin source code is using BytesPerWord (defined elsewhere, I don't remember where at the moment), you were able to get a working FreeTypePlugin, right? So if the code generator is producing "BytesPerWord" in the plugin source, it should be working? Sorry for my confusion, but I did not have time to retrace my earlier steps from building a Cog VM to test compiling the plugin, so I can't check this right now (and maybe I made a mistake when I was looking at it earlier).
Everything was working before you added the change for bytesPerWord method :D I don't know what is the problem right now, (i thought we're fixed it after discussing few weeks ago..) because i am not working on VM builds right now. So, Esteban, it is your call :D
OK, back to Esteban's original question about getting FreetypePlugin working.
I said earlier that I had built and tested a FreetypePlugin on Cog, but this is wrong. The plugin compiled successfully, and in loaded into my Squeak image when I tried it (based on 'Smalltalk listLoadedModules'), so I thought that it was working. However, the build process that I used was the the original unix/config/configure process, and this apparently is not working correctly for FreetypePlugin (the actual FT2Plugin.c code is not included in the build).
Therefore - I cannot confirm that this works on Cog. All I can say for sure is that the code generator changes that I provided produce the "BytesPerWord" output that would normally be used in the oscog branch, which would be the same as the code that apparently originally worked when Igor built a Cog VM prior to these changes.
Igor, whenever you next build some VMs, can you please check and see if the FreetypePlugin is running correctly (not just loading, but actually doing something)? If so, there must be something different in your build procedure compared to what Esteban is doing.
Thanks, Dave