Need help with the VM cleaning?

Le 24 nov. 2016 08:13, "Ronie Salgado" <ronies...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I am working on removing most of windowing code from the VM, and in trying
> to unify the platform specific code of the VM. In the MinimalistHeadless
> branch of https://github.com/ronsaldo/opensmalltalk-vm I made the
> following changes:
>
> - Unified standard CMake building scripts for Unixes. I hate autoconf. I
> want to use them in Windows too.
> - Refactoring the Unix entry points. I am trying to remove a lot of code
> for simplfying stuff.
> - Null window driver for true headless.
> - Optional SDL2 based traditional display backend for compatibility
> reasons, and because the extra Morphic worlds using OSWindow are a bit
> unstable.
>
> So far I managed to run a standard Pharo 6 image using this custom VM in
> Linux. Windows and Mac are coming next. Hopefully this is going to fix the
> problems with duplicated events when using OSWindow in Windows.
>
> I am also planning on making a standard interface for embedding the VM in
> an application, at least as a static library. With this new building
> system, this seems to be easy to do.
>
> BTW. When I tried the minimalistic Pharo image, in a completely headless
> VM, I got the following error:
>
> [ "Ugh .... now this is a biggie - a system that does not support
>         any of the display depths at all."
> Smalltalk
>     logError:
>         'Fatal error: This system has no support for any display depth at
> all.'
>     inContext: thisContext.
> Smalltalk quitPrimitive    "There is no way to continue from here" ] in
> DisplayScreen>>findAnyDisplayDepth
> DisplayScreen>>findAnyDisplayDepthIfNone:
> DisplayScreen>>findAnyDisplayDepth
> DisplayScreen>>setExtent:depth:
> DisplayScreen class>>startUp
>
> As a workaround, I am doing the following for ioHasDisplayDepth with the
> null driver:
>
> sqInt ioHasDisplayDepth(sqInt depth)
> {
>     return true;
> }
>
> In DisplayScreen class >> startUp we have the following:
> startUp  "DisplayScreen startUp"
>     Display setExtent: self actualScreenSize depth: Display nativeDepth.
>     Display beDisplay
>
> Does it make sense, to always trying to create a display in startup time?
>
> Best regards,
> Ronie
>

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