Re: compiling/running swarm 1.4.1 applications on debian

[Paul E. Johnson]

There are debian packages available for swarm from sfi.  Why not go that
route?  When you try to install them, they are likely to hit you with a
warning about which debian packages you are missing, or it will install
them for you if it can find them.

I suspect you need to install the separate objective-c packages for
these compiler.


Daniel Jack Livingstone wrote:
> 
> Im having problems compiling and running swarm applications.
> Im using Swarm 1.4.1 on debian (binary install)
> 
> The following problems occur (all tested on heatbugs)
> 
> 1. Using gcc
> 
>   linker error: cannot open -lobjc
> 
> (or sometimes errors that objc/objc.h and other objc files are not found)
> 
>   gcc (2.7.2.3) has installed without objective-c support!
> 
> so, I thought I'd try egcc:
> 
> 2. Using egcc (incredibly minor change to Makefile.common to do this)
> 
> I get a list of warnings during linking all of the type:
> 
>  type and size of dynamic symbol '__objc_class_name_SwarmObject' are not 
> defined
> 
>  (ditto for ZoomRaster, GUISwarm, etc etc etc)
> 
> Then I get a seg fault when I try to run heatbugs (ditto under gdb)
> 
> I cant find any other problems with Makefile.common, all directories appear
> to be specified correctly.
> 
> any ideas? solutions?
> 
> thanks
> 
> daniel
> 
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