Fwd: GNUstep under mingw

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
> Date: Thu Mar 07, 2002  06:15:47 AM Europe/London
> To: Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: GNUstep under mingw
>
>
> On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 12:11 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
> > I am running GNUstep with mingw and there are a few problems left. 
> > First you hae to use the cygwin make (/usr/bin/make) otherwise the 
> > common.make file gives an error as it tests the $PATH variable to 
> > include the GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools directory. For this to work also 
> > the environment variable GNUSTEP_TARGET_OS has to be set to mingw32, 
> > which is not mentioned in the README.mingw.
>
> I read about that somewhere ... I thought it was in README.MinGW
>
> > You should also download a iconv library, gnustep base runs without 
> > one, but it will be needed later on. (BTW Why do we run without iconv, 
> > but need libxml2?)
>
> We don't need either ... I'm running under mingw without libxml.
> Where did you find iconv for windoze?  Is there anything we need to 
> know about
> installing it?  We should add it to the README.  We should also find 
> out about
> installing libxml and add that to the README too.
>
> > Even after solving all this there is a problem when compiling the 
> > Testing code of base:

<snip>

> > shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-gnu/benchmark.o: In function 
> > `bench_object':
> > //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
> > h:
> > 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
> > //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
> > h:
> > 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
> > //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
> > h:
> > 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
> > //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
> > h:
> > 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
> > //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
> > h:
> > 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
> > shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-
> > gnu/benchmark.o://c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/ba
> > se/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.h:178: more undefined 
> > references to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone' follow
> > make[1]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-gnu/benchmark.exe] 
> > Error 1
> > make: *** [benchmark.all.test-tool.variables] Error 2
> >
> >
> > This lloks like we need to export more than just the classes from our 
> > DLL. Has anybody else faced this problem and how could it be resolved?
>
> I ran across that problem at one point while I was messing about with 
> this stuff ... but
> a rebuild/re-install of the library made the problem go away again.  I 
> guessed that under
> windoze the library needs to be installed before you can build 
> executables ... but as the
> problem only happened to me once I never tested that guess.