Re: GCC libobjc vs. GNUstep libobjc

[Adam Fedor]

Alex Perez wrote:
> Can someone give me a quick overview of why, exactally, it is that when
> you build gnustep on win32 you must use the gnustep libobjc while under a
> 'real' *nix derived OS the GCC-supplied objc runtime is sufficient?
>
> Is something terminally broken?
>
> Maybe this is a dumb question, but do the GCC maintainers know about it?
> If so, might we need to make more noise about it?

GCC's libobjc doesn't export all the functions/variables that we need. 
I'm currently trying to put together a patch for GCC that will fix this, 
but right now there seems to be some kind of bug that prevents me from 
doing this in a simple way.