Re: [eclipse-clp-users] Loading an .asm file

Hi Joachim,

> On 3 Feb 2018, at 11:20, Joachim Schimpf <jschimpf_at_...311...> wrote:
> 
> On 02/02/18 14:39, Paulo Moura wrote:
>> Hi,
>> First of all, congratulations on the release of ECLiPSe 7.0!
>> I wrote a Bash shell script that generates a logtalk.asm file with the Logtalk compiler and runtime:
>> https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/tree/master/scripts/embedding/eclipse
>> ECliPSe documentation state that .asm files can be loaded by ECLiPSe but any attempts result in loading errors. What's the correct way of loading an .asm file?
> 
> 
> An .asm file can be loaded using any of ensure_loaded/1, compile/1,2
> or [file].  Or you can load it using the -f option when starting eclipse.
> 
> The only potential problem I can see in your setup is that maybe
> you are creating the .asm file with ISO-Syntax enabled, but trying
> to load it without?  This could result in quoting issues.
> 
> 
> Apart from that, if your intention is to pre-compile your application
> to speed up loading, you should use .eco format rather than .asm.
> This stores the result after the assembler has been run, and loads
> even more quickly.  There should be no drawbacks compared to .asm.
> 
> To create an .eco file, use compile(my_file, [output:eco]).
> This too can be loaded using any of the alternatives above.

Changed the script to create a .eco file instead. Thanks for the feedback.

>> Thanks,
>> Paulo
>> P.S. Any ETA for ECLiPSe 7.0 macOS binaries?
> 
> As soon as a macOS user takes an interest in creating them, I suppose!

I tried it but didn't get very far. Will discuss in a separate thread.

Cheers,
Paulo

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Paulo Moura
Logtalk developer