On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:09:33AM +0100, teso...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, we are working on the tools required to have embedded Pharo in > different solutions.
Hi Pablo, Your published example embed the image as a Windows resource. Well, the excellent and, like Smalltalk, vastly underrated Free Pascal has built-in cross platform support for Windows resources. Basically I have implemented in Pascal the simplest FFI to libPharoVMCore and the embedded image access routines for callback by libPharoVMCore, together with a driver program which is pretty much a straight port of your C program. Pascal also produces static and dynamic libraries. My embedded image access code can be packaged as such, which makes it accessible from other languages. > My idea is to implement an API to communicate to the image, I was > thinking more in an API similar to Objective-C Bridge or COM objects. > Still I am not sure how to design the API or the way to integrate it. > Today, I am thinking about not having to much marsharlling of Pharo > Objects to external objects, I am thinking to use a similar strategy > like the used with FFI. I am more thinking about marshaling, using say MessagePack. For 'over the wire' development, maybe MessagePack RPC between headful Pharo and the to-be-host program. For embedded, some means to pass MessagePack structures back and forth. Pierce
