On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Robert Lougher wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/20/06, Casey Marshall <csm@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:51 -0800, Casey Marshall wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Are any free VMs currently supported on OS X for Intel (natively)? >>>> >>>> Alternatively, if there's a concise description on what's needed to >>>> support jamvm or cacao (function call ABI hacks, I'd assume), >>>> I'd be >>>> happy to hack on it. >>> >>> I think it's quite easy (at least for me) to port cacao to i686- >>> darwin. >>> The ABI is the same as on linux, AFAIK. >>> >> >> I did blindly try the i386-linux ABI support in jamvm, but that was >> hitting some weird SIGILL. >> > > Here's a modified version of the ABI for linux/i386. It now maintains > the darwin/i386 alignment constraints. Of course, it is untested on > darwin/i386, but it works on linux/i386 (stricter alignment doesn't > matter). > > So, all you should need to do it copy src/os/linux/i386 to > src/os/darwin/i386 and replace dll_md.c. Let me know how you get on. > This gets "Hello, world" to work :-) I'll try some more things, and let you know what I see.
