Yes, and just to let everyone know I've not quite yet finished uploading all the parts yet. Sunday or Monday I hope to complete the upload. Likely there will be three stages (a) Uploading all the pieces to squeaksource and building a macintosh VM & plugin to support Alien. At the moment I do have a VM and plugin that works, excluding the obj-c 2.0 proxy forwarding logic, so it's a matter of moving this work into MC and ensuring others can load, build a plugin and make Alien calls. After this I have the: (b) Integration of the work done to alter the VM to return return codes from primitive calls, versus a sucess/fail flag. That will take longer. and finally the: (c) Integration of the closure compiler/VM for a 4.0.0 macintosh carbon VM with features (a) and (b) On 22-Nov-08, at 5:11 PM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:

There is now a squeaksource project for Alien - the new FFI. See http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien.html

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Ok, after much mindless poking, cross checking and testing, retesting, writing sunits today I can say the Alien FFI logic is mostly ported into Pharo. In the http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien.html MC library I would suggest someone with an eye towards "Compiler, CompileMethod, ParseNode" carefully look at the changes in "Alien-Core" to ensure I've not trashed some important part of the Pharo Compiler or Traits. I can't say if the changes are destructive or passive? you will find: For VMMaker folks Alien-VMMaker-Support which provides the changes to the latest VMMaker from squeaksource to build a Alien aware VM. Alien-VMMaker-Plugins which is the plugin logic For users of Alien Alien-Core-First - Load this first otherwise you'll get a parsing error later Alien-Core - Load this next, Compiler changes etc.. Alien-LibC - LibC support for os-x/unix/windows Alien-CoreTest - SUnits Optional stuff then is Alien-MacOSX-Core - Objective-C interface Alien-MacOSX-AppKit- Objective-C application api Alien-MacOSX-Examples- Objective-C examples Alien-Win32 - Windows examples. Lastly load Alien-Last-Class-Initialize - To ensure all the initializers were run, just in case MC loses it's mind... Oh and you need a plugin and a VM. It's midnight again and I don't have one compiled up for distribution, Monday's chore... Anyway you should be able to load the source code, point/learn about how it's used. Someone will have to build a Unix one, and a Windows one. For the moment there is NO powerpc version since that requires a bit of icky assembler. Same for the iPhone btw (icky ARM assembler). On 23-Nov-08, at 4:20 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

the future looks shining :)

Stef

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how about Smalltalk at: #ObjectiveCAlien ifPresent: [ :c | c initialize ] Keith