Re: Where Is 'GSConfig.h'?

[Philip Mötteli]

Am Sonntag, 07.09.03, um 20:31 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb David Ayers:
> Philip Mötteli wrote:
> > I try to build Gnustep-Base on MOSX 10.2.6. I try to use the  
> > ProjectBuilder file available in the directory 'macosx'. After having 
> >  adapted a lot of (search)paths, it still complains:
> This directory was contributed by a while back.  But it doesn't seem 
> to be actively maintained.

No, but if I succeed, this could be done by me for a good period of 
time. If I succeed…


> Well, as you suspected, 'GSConfig.h' is supposed to get generated by 
> './configure' from 'Headers/Additions/GNUstepBase/GSConfig.h.in'.

configure says also something else:

checking whether objc really works... no
I don't seem to be able to use your Objective-C compiler to produce
working binaries!  Please check your Objective-C compiler installation.
If you are using gcc-3.x make sure that your compiler's libgcc_s and 
libobjc
can be found by the dynamic linker - usually that requires you to play
with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or /etc/ld.so.conf.


I can't find 'ld.so.conf', so I tried finding libgcc_s and libobjc:

usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
/usr/lib/libobjc.A_profile.dylib
/usr/lib/libobjc.dylib
/usr/lib/libobjc_profile.A.dylib
/usr/lib/libobjc_profile.dylib
/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3/libgcc_static.a


Then I put that into LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

% echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3:/usr/lib


I also tried it with:

:/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3:/usr/lib

With no effect. All this had no influence on configure.


> But this may depend on a successfully installed gnustep-make package

I think, I have that installed.


> and a sourceing '/usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.[c]sh'

At least, I can make the sourcing of the shell.


> Maybe someone using -base with the macosx extensions can give you more 
> pointers on how build it with ProjectBuilder.

I know only one such person: Stéphane Corthésy. I already wrote him.


> Otherwise you could try manually creating the file from the template.

This will probably be complicated…


> It would be interesting to know if you can get -base to work with the 
> Apple ObjC Runtime.  Last time someone tried they ran into trouble as 
> the libffi/ffcall hooks of the GNU ObjC Runtime are not available, but 
> required for NSInvocation magic.  You might have to find a way to 
> disable DO.  When using the standard -make / -base building machinery. 
>  You can './configure' with '--disable-do', but I have no idea how 
> this may fit into ProjectBuilder build scheme.

Well, as I thought so far, is that all the classes, already available 
in Apple's Foundation library should be used. So Apple's DOs and 
NSInvocation should be used. This Gnustep-Base, I'm trying to compile, 
is just a very reduced subset of Gnustep-Base – kind of only the 
Gnustep-Base-Additions.



Re
Phil