Re: gnustep on macos x panther

[Bill Northcott]

On 19/04/2005, at 2:46 AM, Secret Guy wrote:
> I've installed or am trying to install gnustep. I used instructions I
> read here:
>
> http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/x2004-10-30.htm
>
> However, I was unable to install libffi. I tried gcc-3.3.2, 3.3.5,
> 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2 and 3.4.3, and tried pyobjc/libffi-src with some
> of those and all either didn't support objc or failed to build ffi.
>
> Though the README.Darwin in gnustep-make-1.10.0 says libffi is
> required, it also later says what to do if "you decided not to install
> libffi". So, I took that path.

It is really simple to build libffi on Panther.  Just get Apple gcc-4.0 
code from the main gcc cvs by using one of the apple-ppc-40XX tags.

Have a look at the build_gcc script.  You can find where it sets up the 
configure options for gcc.  All you need to do is move libffi from the 
list of libraries that only build if gcj is enabled to the default list 
a few lines higher up.  Then follow the Apple build instructions.  You 
will need a recent version of cctools.  The one in the just released 
Darwin 7.9 sources should work.

The same trick can be used to build the GNU runtime as part of the 
Apple compiler.

This should all work even better on Tiger because there the gcc_select 
script understands gcc-4.0 and gcc-4.0 is the default compiler.

Bill Northcott