Re: Building Emacs for GNUstep

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

A quick net search suggests that some GNUStep versions require -DGNUSTEP, so 
try to add that to CFLAGS when configuring, i.e.
% CFLAGS='-g -O2 -DGNUSTEP ./configure ...

        Jan D.

11 jul 2014 kl. 21:58 skrev andres.ramirez <address@hidden>:

> Hi Jan.
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.9.0 20140604 (prerelease)
> 
> compiling with gcc the ns port;
> after installing with the package manager (no dev versions):
> gcc-objc
> gnustep-libobjc2-git
> gnustep-make 2.6.6-1
> gnustep-base 1.24.6-1
> gnustep-gui 0.24.0-2
> 
> with ./configure --with-ns --with-gnustep-conf=/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
> 
> checking if GNUstep defines BASE_NATIVE_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS... no
> checking AppKit/AppKit.h usability... no
> checking AppKit/AppKit.h presence... yes
> configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h:     check for missing prerequisite 
> headers?
> configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: see the Autoconf documentation
> configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be 
> Compiled"
> configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
> checking for AppKit/AppKit.h... no
> configure: error: `--with-ns' was specified, but the include
>  files are missing or cannot be compiled.
> 
> checking the cotent of config.log this is found:
> configure:10234: result: no
> configure:10246: checking AppKit/AppKit.h usability
> configure:10246: gcc -std=gnu99 -c -g3 -O2 -x objective-c -I/usr/include 
> -I/usr/include     -x objective-c -I/usr/include -I/usr/include conftest.c >&5
> In file included from /usr/include/AppKit/NSPanel.h:34:0,
>                 from /usr/include/AppKit/NSColorPanel.h:39,
>                 from /usr/include/AppKit/AppKit.h:63,
>                 from conftest.c:101:
> /usr/include/AppKit/NSWindow.h:876:1: error: cannot find protocol declaration 
> for 'NSWindowDelegate'
> @interface NSObject (NSWindowDelegateAdditions) <NSWindowDelegate>
> 
> 
> Any ideas?. Regards
> 
> At Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:06:37 +0200,
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> 11 jul 2014 kl. 00:12 skrev andres.ramirez <address@hidden>:
>> 
>>> Hi Guys. Following this thread.
>>> 
>>> I tried to compile the ns-port on my distro (archlinux)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> nsterm.m:5015: error: undefined reference to 'macfont_get_nsctfont'
>>> nsfns.m:1391: error: undefined reference to 'macfont_get_nsctfont'
>>> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
>>> invocation)
>>> Makefile:664: recipe for target 'temacs' failed
>>> make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/aramirez/abs/emacs/ns/emacs-24.3.92/src'
>>> Makefile:382: recipe for target 'src' failed
>>> make: *** [src] Error 2
>>> 
>>> Any idea how to solve this?.
>> 
>> The clang preprocessor seems to be broken.  Use gcc.
>> 
>>      Jan D.
>>