[Help-smalltalk] GST bootstrapping process

[Jan Vrany]

Hello,

I'm experimenting (or I plan to do it)
with smalltalk VM.  One thing is still 
hidden for me - the image assembling 
process. What's done, when gst is 
run with -i?

I've read the gst code, but this part
was very complicated to read.

I realized, that before everything
kernel/Builtins.st is read. However, 
before this could be done, i thing some infracture
have to be set up such as some classes
like SmallInteger Symbol, Class, MethodDictionary, 
MethodDescriptor and MetaClass and MetaClass class.
How and where this is done? How the rest is
loaded? I was unable to find any order when
reading kernel/*.st. 

Can you give me a little overview and/or
point me to the source code?

Thanks. Jan