Windows Slate build in Visual Studio

[Todd Fleming]

Here's how I prepare Slate after generating a fresh VM and image:
  C:\slate>slate little.image
  Bootstrapping libraries...
  Slate: Growing heap to 4818864 bytes.
  Hi, there!
  Slate 1> saveImageNamed: 'work.image'.
  False
  Slate 2> quit.

After that is finished, the following brings up a REPL:
  C:\slate>slate work.image
  Slate: Growing heap to 5863104 bytes.
  True
  Slate 2>

To make sure DLL support working, try this at the REPL:
  [| l f |
    l: (ExternalLibrary newNamed: 'User32').
    f: (l functionNamed: 'MessageBoxA').
    f argumentsFormat:
    {
      ExternalMethod ArgumentFormat Int.
      ExternalMethod ArgumentFormat Bytes.
      ExternalMethod ArgumentFormat Bytes.
      ExternalMethod ArgumentFormat Int.
    }.
    f callFormat: ExternalMethod CallFormat Std.
    (f applyTo: {0 'Hello from Slate!\0' 'My Dialog\0' 0}).
  ] do.


I haven't looked closely at smart-console, so I don't know what it adds, 
other than command history. Fortunately the Windows console already 
provides that to Slate.

Todd


Shaping wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Fleming" <todd at flemingcnc.com>
> To: "Slate project discussion" <slate at tunes.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 13:29
> Subject: Re: Windows Slate build in Visual Studio
>
> Thanks, Todd, but how then do I talk to the REPL?  Is the wvm.exe 
> sufficient? What does the smart-console add?  It is a .dll, correct?  
> I'm assuming this extends the functionality of the VM (wvm.exe) somehow.
>
> Shaping