JNIPort - How to load this in pharo?

Question

I was trying to load JNIPort in pharo , from

MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/JNIPort' user: '' password: ''

Its raising some bugs regarding missing .mcz files in the repo. I wonder if sommone is using it already, and are willing to share info about loading it to the image.

My objective is feasibility study.

Answer 1

I could never install JNIPort, but Masashi Umezawa prepared a Pharo 1.4 image with JNIPort installed in it. You can find it here:

http://share.cx.com/Cgpfpv

I know it's not exactly the answer you were looking for, but at least you'll have a Pharo image with JNIPort in it so you can start working right away...

Answer 2

JNIPort is unlikely to work in a recent Pharo right now. There have been significant changes in FFI (NativeBoost, etc) that have not been ported yet to JNIPort. At the Esug conference Johan Brichau said something about making it work again, but I don't know how far that work is. Better take a look in the pharo dev mailing list.