[Vm-dev] Squeak VM port to Google Native Client
Yoshiki Ohshima
yoshiki at vpri.org
Wed May 4 06:18:04 UTC 2011
Hello,
I'm playing with Google Native Client a bit and made a port of
Squeak VM to it. It is far from complete (even the state where
backspace or Cmd-p etc. does not work, sound does not work, etc.), It
now reached to the state where I can say the basic part of it is
working.
The source code is available at:
http://github.com/yoshikiohshima/NaClSqueak
. Also, f you have Google Chrome 11 beta available, try to turn on
the Native Client on (by typing "about:flags" into the title bar) and
access:
http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/squeak/squeak.html
(The first try may take some time.)
- It is gnuify-ed but we're still learning the JIT situation of
NaCl. So, it' need some work to port Cog.
- The image data is embedded as a C array in this executable. You
can remove EMBEDDED_IMAGE_FILE flag off, and comment/uncomment the
corresponding part of squeak.html, it can load the image
separately via XMLHttpRequest of the browser.
- There is some strange issue when you do fast drag the system
window.
- As you can see, the source code is derived from the Unix VM. It
was hard for me to write some CMake stuff to set it up for the
cross compilation. A help to merge it back to the Unix code would
be greatly appreciated.
- If Google takes over the world and all apps become a Native Client
(may be even other browsers^^;), this port may be useful^^;
-- Yoshiki
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