Re: [Themis-dev] 12/5/2008 Status

[Mark H. <ma...@fi...>]

>Hi folks,

Hi Raymond,

> 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.

Very nice. I'm still waiting for an official alpha release before I give
it a spin.

[snip makefile changes for Haiku]

Is your makefile still BeOS compatible then ?
Did you mention the denpendency generation problem to the Haiku developers
?

> 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.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Thanks for fixing it.

>  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).

Did you manage to fix the problem ?

> 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.

I program using the STL myself, but I also know the error messages the
comiler can generate if things go wrong with STL and they are not pretty.
You can post the error here or maybe on bedevtalk and see what happens.

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

It's nice to see someone committing code for Themis again. It's been a
while.
Are you planning to do real development again ?

Mark

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