Re: [xmlvm-users] Few Bugs in Buffers - Patching?

[Kevin G. <ke...@co...>]

I'm working off the trunk at the moment, is that up to date with the latest
backend. I just tried to build a project with the iphonec backend and ended
up with xcode project with a lot of errors. It it expected to work out of
the box yet?

Kev

On 11 February 2011 20:43, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...> wrote:

>
> Kevin,
>
> things are changing in XMLVM. We are in the middle of transitioning to
> the new C backend which will make the Objective-C backend obsolete. One
> benefit is that we can cross-compile Apache Harmony, so there is no
> longer the need for hand-writing J2SE classes in Objective-C (which
> means, the java.nio.Buffer bug will go away with the C backend).
>
> There is still API missing from both the Objective-C and the C backend.
> Patches are certainly more than welcome, however, I would prefer if you
> submitted patches for the C backend, since we will deprecate the
> Objective-C backend soon.
>
> To get you started:
> - add the missing Cocoa API in xmlvm/src/xmlvm2obj/compat-lib/java
> - run "ant gen-c-wrappers"
> - this will generate C wrappers in src/xmlvm2c/compat-lib/iphone
> - provide implementation in those wrappers between the special
>   //XMLVM_BEGIN_ and //XMLVM_END_ markers
>
> If you want to use the C backend to cross-compile iFireworks, you can do
> the following:
>
> java -Xmx700m -jar dist/xmlvm.jar --target=iphonec \
>    --in=demo/iphone/ifireworks/build/classes/ \
>    --resource=demo/iphone/ifireworks/res/ \
>    --app-name=iFireworks --out=out
>
> There are also some slides in xmlvm/doc/slides that give a quick
> overview of the C backend (in the middle of the slide deck).
>
> When you have a patch, you can upload it to our review system as
> described here: http://xmlvm.org/contribute/
>
> Arno
>
>
>
>
> On 2/11/11 7:03 AM, Kevin Glass wrote:
> > There's a couple of bugs in the java.nio.Buffer implementations for
> > ObjC. There's also a method on CGFont (CopyFullName) that'd be really
> > useful given the changes in iOS 4 - how do I go about submitting patches
> > for things these days?
> >
> > Kev
> >
> >
> >
> >
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