Re: Having build issues on Mac OS X

[Ivan Vučica]

I highly recommend that under OS X people use Xcode from Mac App Store (seriously, that's a one-click install).

For GNUstep work, I used VirtualBox with Ubuntu.

But if you do succeed in your quest to have a reproducibly buildable and functional GNUstep under OS X, you'd help a lot of people iterate faster (including, based on sights seen at devmeeting in Cambridge, a lot of core developers).

On 27 Nov 2013 22:26, "Kevin Ingwersen" <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:

The issue for some people is just that they need just a ObjC compiler. For most it is not easy to find the devtools that apple seeds - because you need to install gigabytes of junk, just to get to the 300MB of build tools. So i want to build GNUstep and offer it as an alternative. I also want to use it as a toolchain for automatic building for my own projects (drag0n, pcc, etc).
Thanks!
Am 27.11.2013 um 23:14 schrieb Adam Fedor <fedor@gnu.org>:

> gnustep-make
> gnustep-base
> gnustep-gui
> gnustep-back
>
> Note that building GNUstep on MacOSX is difficult as the symbols used by GNUstep conflict with ones in the standard OSX libraries.  It's also not very useful as there is a perfectly acceptable implementation of Cocoa already on OSX. Probably a better approach is to load a virtual machine onto OSX running Linux or Windows and compile GNUstep on that, using that to test any code you have built on OSX.
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Any specific order?
>>
>> Well, I can edit shell scripts. Is InstallGNUstep always the same - not like, generated? If so, i could optimize it for Mac. :)
>> Am 27.11.2013 um 22:08 schrieb Adam Fedor <fedor@gnu.org>:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey there!
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to prepair an installable GNUstep package for Mac OS X. But I have been having slight issues with building.
>>>>
>>>> When I supply flags to ./configure then it works. But InstallGNUstep perfectly ignores them - completely.
>>>>
>>>> So I am calling it with this
>>>> sudo ./InstallGNUstep --prefix=/opt/GNUstep/ --config-options='--prefix=/opt/GNUstep/ --with-thread-lib=pth --with-x=/opt/X11/ --with-include-flags="-I/opt/GNUstep/include" --enable-libffi --with-library-flags="-L/opt/GNUstep/lib" --x-includes=/opt/X11/include/ --x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib/‚
>>>>
>>>
>>> GNUstep startup doesn't really work on MacOSX.  You should try to compile the packages separately.
>>>
>>
>>
>


_______________________________________________
Discuss-gnustep mailing list
Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep