Re: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox on Linux

From: [at]} <Martin>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:41:56 -0300

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Dear Bernhard

Many thanks for that very useful summary! It seems sensible to wait for
a while to see if Fyodor could update us on any progress in Russia. The
next step, if appropriate, would be to set up a source-forge (or
Launchpad) project - I don't really know anything about this but am
willing to learn and help.

All the best, Martin

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:41 +0200, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> Dear Martin & Chris,
>
> it is quite unclear, what our russian friends have achieved,
> at least I didn't get very clear feedback from there although
> there are some people trying there something ...
>
> The steps for a successfull port are:
>
> 0. Creating interface modules to the standard (and necessary
> advanced) libraries. This can be eased by using Stewart
> Greenhill's H2O, which is implented without real documentation
> for OO2C and optionally creates CP interface modules from
> C-Header files (beware macros), but Stewart helps and answers
> questions quickly if there is interest. He polished and added
> my CP stuff to the CVS tree off OO2C without any discussion ...
>
> 1. Generating ELF executables (currently the ELF linker on
> Andrew Thomas pages generates only shared objects)
>
> 2. Implementing a kernel (that has been done already by OMiSys)
> some time ago (around 2001/2002).
>
> 3. Implementing all HostXYZ modules (as far as I know, most of
> them are also already implemented by OMiSys except some
> advanced stuff in HostCFrames).
>
> That's it ... hmm, doing it from the scratch is not that easy.
>
> Maybe we should set up a source-forge projects for doing that
> jointly (although I don't have much time to spare), if OMiSys
> agrees to put up the sources of what was achieved by them in
> 2001/2002 (I've got it under NDA at that time already, but
> could not find time to persue it).
>
> Maybe also Fyodor Tchakov can tell us more about the current
> state of the russion linux activities ...
>
> regards
> --
> Bernhard Treutwein

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