Re: [Swarm-Support] Pls bring me up to speed on gcc-4.7 and Swarm. Anybody?

[Paul Johnson]

On 05/30/2012 04:12 PM, Scott Christley wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Swarm will not work with gcc-4.7.0.  More specifically, gcc-4.7.0 has the new 
> GNU Objective-C runtime library which has been extensively changed to be 
> compatible with Objective-C v2.0 from Apple.
> 

Bummer.

Is there anything to be done?

Does your work on the Mac version of Swarm take you up to a point where you 
could write a "porting guide" that the rest
of us could use to bring the rest of Swarm source into a workable state?  The 
details of forwarding and fcall are so far
over my head it would take you longer to explain the theory to me than, well, 
it will take the rest of the polar ice
caps to melt.  But, I am pretty good at time-consuming editing that translates 
code from one style to another. I'm
willing to delete Java Swarm altogether if necessary, all of my interesting 
stuff is in Objective-C anyway.

I guess I can just install gcc-4.6.3 in a separate folder and run with that.  
As long as it can be compiled, anyway.

> My guess is that Swarm seemed to build because it was looking at the ObjC 
> header files within Swarm itself, while Heatbugs is looking at the system 
> header files (/usr/include/objc) and thus the conflict.
> 
> Scott
> 
>

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