Ah, got the examples working :)

I replaced all X11Drawable arguments in the ffi call signature to ulong
and replace the call ... drawable ... with ... drawable xid ...

attached is the changeset
(who maintains the FFI-Package and�� the X11 examples?)




2014-09-22 23:10 GMT+02:00 phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be>:
I passed 'localhost:0:0' in the XWindows example and this gave me a window reference.

The next problem was that it broke after that. But I got the handle.

Try with that, it may help.

Phil


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Annick Fron <list@afceurope.com> wrote:
Thanks you
The problem is I wanted to use X windows !
Otherwise I have managed to use FFI on Linux.
Perhaps there is a glitch when passing nil as argument. It is not clear whether we have to use nil or 0 (as a null pointer).
This is really my point, I sometimes need to pass NULL.
Annick

Le 22 sept. 2014 �� 21:22, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> a ��crit :


2014-09-22 18:10 GMT+02:00 phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be>:
I've been able to reproduce this.

Well, my CentOS thing requires me for some reason to put /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 in the module name (doing these kind of things looks like usual for lib names with FFI from what I saw from old Squeak threads).

Yes, I read this threads too, I solved it by
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<YOUR_PATH_TO_X11> ./pharo ....

but no matter which of this (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or full name in the ffi pragma) the call throws the
"could not coerce arguments"- error.

But the Sample class>>callC: method you wrote in the other mail works.



XCreateGC: xDisplay with: aDrawable with: valueMask with: values
<cdecl: X11GC 'XCreateGC' (X11Display* X11Drawable ulong long*) module: '/usr/lib/libX11.so.6'>

Now, other internal FFIPrims tests do work.

So, it is X11 or something else, I do not know.

Phil


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
Annick Fron wrote:
Hi,

I have posted a bug about this in fogbugz.
FFI example on Linux don���t work

X11Display coloredRectangles
raises an error �� coud not coerce arguments ��.
In fogbugz, I was asked to raise this question in the mailing list, to know if it comes from the VM or from FFI.

Annick

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Hi Annick,
Sorry I don't know anything about this topic to help, just a minor observation that a link to the fogbugz issue would help streamline things for someone who does.
:)
cheers -ben