Re: Help with building requested

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 04:28 PM, René Berber wrote:

> On 2002-09-09 09:45:05 +0000 Blacktiger <blktiger@ku.edu> wrote:
>
> > When trying to build gnustep-base-1.4.1 I get the following errors:
> > dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1
> > make[2]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/cygwin/gnu-gnu-gnu/gnustep-base.dll] 
> > Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [libgnustep-base.all.library.variables] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/Blacktiger/gnustep/gnustep-base-1.4.1/Source'
> > make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> >
> > If I continue anyway and try to build gnustep-gui-0.8.0 I get this:
> > make[2]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/cygwin/gnu-gnu-gnu/Functions.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [libgnustep-gui.all.library.variables] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Blacktiger/gnustep/gnustep-
> > gui-0.8.0/Source'
> > make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I am using the latest 
> > version of
> > cygwin to do this, and the latest version of the gcc compiler.
>
> Unless something changed recently, GNUstep doesn't compile with Cygwin, 
> not even if you have built a newer gcc with ObjectiveC.  The error you 
> run into are exactly what you describe, dlltool is called with missing 
> parameters, then, after using dlltool manually to create the library 
> dllwraper complains with something similar.
>
> There is some guide that describes how to build GNUstep with MinGW and 
> how to cross-compile with Cygwin (it's in the README.* files inside the 
> Documentation of gnustep-make) but I haven't tried.

Haven't tried it with the latest mingw/msys and gcc ... it worked with 
the versions as documented
a few weeks ago.
I don't know if anyone is trying to build using cygwin at present.