Just getting started at looking at io and thought I'd try installing it on my OpenBSD box (Macbook(s) running OpenBSD 4.5 beta). I downloadeded...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
May 5, 2009 9:47 pm
OpenBSD should work with the same code for FreeBSD for ncpu’s (I think I wrote this code, but cannot remember now). Just add an && defined(__OpenBSD__) and...
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paulcgregory
May 5, 2009 10:55 pm
Hi all, I've been toying with Io for a while (since I found out about it via Pixar's usage). I've been looking for a nice powerful, embeddable, extendable...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 6, 2009 1:46 am
Hi Paul, James Burgess (jrb@...) was maintaining the windows support but hasn't committed any patches in a while. I'm pretty sure he'd be glad to pass...
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paulcgregory
May 6, 2009 2:13 pm
In that case, I'll clean up the changes a bit, check that they don't affect building on Posix, and send a patch. I'll then look at getting the VC build into a...
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Andreas Schipplock
schipplock
May 6, 2009 2:36 pm
sounds good :). ... -- - Kind regards, Andreas Schipplock....
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nlb0666
May 6, 2009 3:16 pm
Jeremy - thanks for the reply. I through "OpenBSD" into the overall makefile on the "NEEDS_M := FreeBSD" etc line (line 10) and that seems to have got past...
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nlb0666
May 7, 2009 4:01 am
Hmmm hacked my way through a little more... Seems like "OpenBSD" needs to be in the same Makefile line for the tools dir as well or the math libraries won't...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 7, 2009 7:04 am
... If the ucontext is both available and working on OpenBSD, we can just tell the libcoroutine to use it....
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nlb0666
May 7, 2009 12:21 pm
As far as I can tell, ucontext is not available on OpenBSD. I tried using a version of libtask from here http://swtch.com/libtask/ but it appears that there...
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paulcgregory
May 8, 2009 12:11 am
When I try to build the current git status (trying to do so in preparation for submitting a Win32 patch), I get lots of errors on both Windows and Linux. They...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 8, 2009 1:06 am
... Hm, how could that happend given that everything in PHash_inline.h is commented out? ...
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ljnrf
May 8, 2009 1:43 am
Hi Paul, A few months ago I pulled the latest Io tree from github and built successfully with only a couple of minor changes using the free vc9 compiler(which...
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Friedrich Weber
fred.reichbier@...
May 8, 2009 3:41 pm
I had the same problem, and it seems like a `make clean` before `make` fixed it for me. Regards, Friedrich...
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Paul Gregory
paulcgregory
May 8, 2009 3:51 pm
Yeah, me too on Linux, have some issues to solve on Win32, working on it now. Paul 2009/5/8 Friedrich Weber <fred.reichbier@...>...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 11, 2009 8:26 am
After running into a rare bug in the previous hash table code, I rewrote it last week and have been tweaking the new code a bit, including a few critical fixes...
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Mike Austin
mike_ekim
May 16, 2009 1:20 am
Anyone know how to build Io statically? MinGW binaries work in Wine with Ubuntu, so I'm trying to build piece by piece. I'm getting dynamic lib build errors....
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 19, 2009 6:14 pm
... I forget if there is a make option for it, but you'll notice all the libs get built with both dll and static versions. So it should be straightforward to...
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joh_90uk
May 25, 2009 10:25 am
Hi, I have been trying to build IO on a PPC mac but found it was crashing on a PPC mac. The problem appeared to be in libcoro, where the version of...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 26, 2009 11:29 am
... Thanks joh_90uk - I'd added your fix....
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tobeythorn
Jun 4, 2009 2:31 pm
I've been trying to understand how Io works and what goes on under the hood. I'm becoming more and more impressed with it, but am a little confused about a a...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Jun 4, 2009 2:37 pm
... I don't understand what you mean with "123" and "this is a word" please clarify that. However, TRUE, FALSE and NIL are just constants that point at ...
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tobeythorn
Jun 4, 2009 3:32 pm
... What I mean is the construction of numbers and strings....
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Jun 4, 2009 3:34 pm
... That's part of the parsing subsystem. When the lexer matches certain patterns (like numbers or strings), it will create a token of that particular type....
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tobeythorn
Jun 4, 2009 7:25 pm
... Jeremy, But a message (or tree of messages) must, at the end of the day, be sent to real objects (right?). If primitive objects like numbers and strings...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Jun 4, 2009 7:32 pm
... Strings and Numbers *ARE* objects just like any other. They just happen to be created in C code rather than Io code. You can manipulate number objects just...
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tobeythorn
Jun 4, 2009 8:02 pm
... Jeremy, Thanks, that makes sense now!...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Jun 4, 2009 8:36 pm
... Hi Tobey, Everything compiles to a tree composed of messages. Literals such as numbers and strings in the source become instances of number and string...
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dennisf486
Jun 7, 2009 3:07 am
This build problem first occurred a couple years ago for me, and I just noticed the latest code I pulled from github still has the same issue. Steps to...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Jun 7, 2009 6:52 pm
In my opinion this isn't the responsibility of io, nor any other library to do. It's not third party developers fault that GNU ld is "dumb" (I don't use that...
