Hello, I am contemplating forking the VM due to my frustration over having to live at Ian's mercy with regards to enhancements to the VM. I don't mean to fault Ian, he has clearly done some excellant work with Squeak and is superbly talented. My issue is that I am unable to work with his build environment to the point that I can successfully implement my own extensions such as the SDL driver that I've been working on. -- I can't figure out how to make the build script work.

I am therefore contemplating an attempt to fork a new set of platform code that I can work with. I don't expect the quality of my code will be able to equal that of Ian's in terms of compatibility, only that it will be better suited to my skillset. -- A version that I can change quickly, easily, and with impunity.

In researching this effort I came across an extremely interesting bit of code in my Croquet image:

####### glActiveTextureARB(texture) "This method was automatically generated."

### By what software???

"void glActiveTextureARB(GLenum texture);" <apicall: void 'glActiveTextureARB' (ulong) module: 'opengl32.dll'>

### An initial investigation seems to indicate that this is accomplished through the "FFI" plugin. How does this really work??? If it's even 1/10th as powerful as it appears to be, most of the existing platform and cross code should be scrapped in favor of in-image wrappers! =P ####

^self externalCallFailed ########