Re: [Swarm-Support] installing swarm on mac os 10.2

[Bill Northcott]

On 21/05/2004, at 4:45 AM, anja lee wrote:
> I am new to swarm and have downloaded all the necessary 10.2 files 
> from the website and installed it.  I am trying to run someone else's 
> Objective C folder with a makefile and did a "make" and this is what 
> the output was:

I am not sure what you mean by "run someone else's Objective C folder." 
 Can you explain?

> bash-2.05a$ make
> cc -c -ggdb -O2 -Wno-long-double -fgnu-runtime -fno-strict-aliasing 
> -Wall -Wno-import -Wno-protocol -Wno-long-long   -DAPPNAME=somename 
> -DAPPVERSION=0.01 address@hidden   
> -I/usr/local/swarm2.2p/include somefile.m
> /var/tmp//ccf019Ju.s:1:Expected comma after segment-name
> /var/tmp//ccf019Ju.s:1:Rest of line ignored. 1st junk character valued 
> 76 (L).
> /var/tmp//ccf019Ju.s:2:Expected comma after segment-name
stuff removed
> make: *** [somefile.o] Error 1
> bash-2.05a$

I think /var/tmp//ccf019.s is a temporary assembler code file produced 
by the compiler from the source and which is then fed to the assembler 
(as) to produce object code.  The assembler clearly does not like what 
it finds and is spitting errors from line 1.  So it looks likes the 
file may be zero length.  Basically your compiler is not working the 
way you are invoking it.

I suspect this is a permission problem related to your efforts to "run 
someone else's Objective C folder."

> I have read that you need gcc 3.3.  would i need that for 10.2 and 
> where can i download a copy that won't hurt the makes of mac binaries.

You need gcc 3.3.  More importantly, you get a copy of 10.3 with the 
latest developer tools which you can download from 
http://developer.apple.com/.  You need to register on ADC but that is 
free.   10.3 is much improved on 10.2 for any open source code.  The 
gcc3.3 compiler supplied with Xcode 1.2 may work.  I have not had time 
to test it.  However, if it does not, just download my patched version 
from the link on the Swarm Savannah site 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swarm.

Finally for the record, Swarm libraries do not contain gcc headers with 
possible exception of the Objective-C runtime.  However, the GNU 
Objective-C runtime won't build on MacOS X without modification, and is 
not included with any gcc for the platform.

Bill Northcott