Re: problems building gnustep-startup on osx

[Adam Fedor]

On Jul 1, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Jon Brisbin wrote:

> I just downloaded the latest gnustep-startup and tried compiling it on 
> my powerbook (using darwinports' gcc4)
>
> Everything compiles fine, but, as with my problems with GNUstep on 
> Win32, it crapped out when it tried to link. I can probably get away 
> with just using XCode and being careful to not use anything 
> Cocoa-specific. But that won't let me use the GNUstep XML stuff, which 
> I desperately need to test porting an application from Java to 
> Objective-C. I'd like to be able to work on it on my PowerBook, but if 
> I can't, I might not be able to do this project at all (unless I put 
> PPC linux on here too, but I'd rather not do that.) It's kind of part 
> work-related and part not ;-)
>
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! :-)
>
> Jon Brisbin
>
>
>  Linking tool autogsdoc ...
> /opt/local/bin/odld: Undefined symbols:
> ___objc_exec_class
> _objc_get_class
> _objc_msg_lookup
> _objc_msg_lookup_super

Maybe you could try to compile the base library individually like this:

make messages=yes

and see if it is linking in the libobjc library and perhaps from where.