Re: [xmlvm-users] Using the posix backend

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

XMLVM bundles a garbage collector pre-configured for iOS. For all other 
platforms (i.e., Posix) you need to download and install the Boehm GC 
yourself. Note that the Boehm GC recently moved to github:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

Arno


On 3/28/12 10:00 AM, Bruce Jackson wrote:
> Thank you, thats great. If I am actually wanted to end up with a library
> that I can use in an existing iOS application, is this the ight way to
> go, or should I just set the --out=iphone ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
> On 28 Mar 2012, at 16:18, Paul Poley wrote:
>
>> You are correct. You can find the instructions to install the boehm GC
>> in the comments at the beginning of "xmlvm/var/posix/Makefile".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Bruce Jackson
>> <bru...@go... <mailto:bru...@go...>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello there
>>
>>     I have a simple Java library that I use in an Android application
>>     and I would like to convert it using xmlvm using the posix backend
>>     on MacOS X 10.6.
>>
>>     I have built and installed xmlvm as described in the docs, and
>>     that all looks good. My java classes are in a directoty called
>>     java, and I want the output in the directory src.
>>
>>     When I enter:
>>
>>     xmlvm --in=./java --out=./src --target=posix
>>
>>     …I correctly get the directories src and dist created under src.
>>     diet contains just one file (Makefile) while src has a whole pile
>>     of .c and .h files as I would expect.
>>
>>     If I then go into dist and type:
>>
>>     make
>>
>>     … I get the following message:
>>
>>     mkdir -p build/
>>     mkdir -p build/obj/
>>     gcc -w -std=c99 -DALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS -DGC_THREADS
>>     -DTHREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC -DPARALLEL_MARK -DUSE_MMAP -DUSE_MUNMAP
>>     -DNO_DYLD_BIND_FULLY_IMAGE -I../src -c
>>     ../src/com_pure_media_MediaStore.c -o
>>     build/obj/com_pure_media_MediaStore.o
>>     In file included from ../src/com_pure_media_MediaStore.c:1:
>>     ../src/xmlvm.h:51:16: error: gc.h: No such file or directory
>>     make: *** [build/obj/com_pure_media_MediaStore.o] Error 1
>>
>>     I can see what's happening here, but I'm not sure what I need to
>>     install in order to get gc.h. Nothing in the documentation tells
>>     me I need to have anything else installed on my system in order to
>>     build for a posix backend, but obviously I'm missing something
>>     (probably the boemgc library?) or I don't have a path to
>>     appropriate headers set up.
>>
>>     Can anyone help/advise?
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     Bruce
>>
>>
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