[Themis-dev] 12/5/2008 Status

[Raymond C. R. <ra...@ba...>]

Hi folks,
 Earlier this week, I managed to put together a tiny Intel Atom 330 
based computer which can boot and run Haiku. Aside from needing to use 
the VESA video driver, and a quirk that keeps popping up when typing 
(Haiku seems to think I'm occasionally holding a key down long after 
I've released it), it seems beyond stable enough to do development on.

 In fact, if you belong to the themis-devcvs list, you probably have 
noticed the commits I've made to the Subversion repository over the last 
24 hours. Aside from the makefile, which I haven't committed yet, Themis 
and add-ons should now compile under Haiku. That's not to say everything 
is working like it was under BeOS, but it's a step in the right 
direction. I haven't committed the makefile yet because I had to remove 
the support for automatically generated dependencies: everytime I ran 
make, I would get an endless loop of updating the dependencies, and it 
wouldn't move on to building the object files. So, I went through and 
commented out all lines referencing the dependency files and generation 
thereof. I did make some Haiku specific additions to it as well, but 
they were relatively minor. (Mainly just making sure that it linked the 
framework against libbind.so, libsocket.so, libssl.so, and libcrypto.so. 
Yes, I'm going to be moving back over to OpenSSL.)

 I also had to check-out a copy of the repository via cvs to get a 
pristine copy of the themis.rsrc resource file to replace the copy that 
was in the Subversion repository. I'm guessing that when I converted the 
repository to svn years ago from cvs, that the resource file some how 
got corrupted in the process, and as a result was preventing xres from 
adding the resource file to the compiled Themis binary.
 
 The main problem that I've had outside of compiling is that the add-ons 
are not loading. I haven't investigated the reason they aren't loading 
yet, but all of them have compiled successfully, and are located where 
they are supposed to be located. Hopefully, I'll have the time this 
weekend to investigate this, and possibly even fix the problem(s).

 I intend to build a library out of the V8 Javascript engine that was 
developed as part of Google's Chrome web browser. I have checked out a 
copy of that repository and tried compiling it with scons (the build 
software they're using), but haven't gotten it to do much that way, 
probably because Haiku isn't on their supported list, so it wasn't taken 
into account in the SControl file. So, I've started looking for a way to 
circumvent this by building a makefile, but that's so far resulted in an 
error dealing with a static cast from one type to another using STL. I'm 
not very knowledgeable about STL, so this has halted my initial progress 
in that direction. I don't know if it's a genuine error in the code, or 
if it's just that gcc 2.95.x which is in use on BeOS and Haiku is too 
old to handle it. If you happen to know and/or are more knowledgeable 
about STL than I am, I'd appreciate a bit of help there.

 
That about covers things for the moment, but please let me know if you 
have any thoughts, comments, or ideas.

Raymond