Re: Objective-C programming

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-09-30 15:56:07 +0000 Mehul N. Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Gregory John Casamento said the following on 9/30/2005 9:08 AM:
> > I heard of at least one person getting it to run under NetBSD on an old 
> > (read
> > 680x0) Mac w/ 16 MB of RAM.
> >
> > GJC
>
>
> NetBSD/sparc64 though is another matter.  One of the dependent libraries
> does not compile and therefore, neither does GNUstep.  This is for
> gnustep-base, in the ffcall library.

Perhaps you can use ffi rather than ffcall ... it's an option at configure 
time.

> Also, on NetBSD, there is something called gnustep-objc which according
> to the description, is the GCC/GNUstep Objective-C runtime.  Is this 
> something that I should have ?  Apparently all the functions have
> their names changed to the GNU naming convention.  Should I use this
> or the NeXT runtime ?   Do I even have that choice ?

No ... you need the gnu runtime ... there is no NeXT runtime for sparc64 
afaik