[Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU Smalltalk 2.2 release announcement

[Paolo Bonzini]

Daniel Solaz wrote:

> Hello.
>
> > - GCC needed to compile GNU Smalltalk.
>
> If this is irrevocably so, my project to wrap Open Inventor and IRIS 
> ViewKit, and develop an extensible Inventor editor has just been killed.
> These are IRIX MIPSpro C++ libraries that cannot be linked with g++ 
> object code.

You can develop GNU Smalltalk modules with other compilers.  It's just 
the VM that needs GCC, and it's pure C (not C++).

> Was it really necessary?

Yes, because the new virtual machine's code is too complex to not be 
automatically generated, and the code generator only supports GCC.  I 
can help you fix it if you really need it, but I think this is not a 
problem.

Paolo