Re: [Q] StepTalk Build on Windows OS

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-05-11 17:26:29 +0200 S.J.Chun <chunsj@embian.com> wrote:

> I've tested :-)
>
> Several problems newly occurred!!
> 1. Languages/Smalltalk, NSString+additions.m not found but included in the 
> GNUmakefile

Fixed.

> 2. Languages/Smalltalk itself needs libStepTalk but this requirement is not 
> correctly specified in the GNUmakefile, so
>      in the process of linking, it failed (like I've stated in the previous 
> mail). To build, I've added    Smalltalk_BUNDLE_LIBS = 
> -L../../Source/shared_obj -lStepTalk
>      to the GNUmakefile. I'm not sure this is correct way

Hm, the dependency is not specified at all. If I run objdump on Smalltalk 
executable, the only required library is:
 NEEDED      libc.so.6

I have added following two lines into GNUmakefile:

ADDITIONAL_TOOL_LIBS += -lStepTalk
ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS += -L../../Source/$(GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR)

Let me know, if it works.

> 3. Finders/DistributedFinder is the same case as 2. Actually 
> DistributedFinder_BUNDLE_LIBS is specified but
>      -L../../Source/shared_obj for library location is not.

Fixed as above.

> 4. Modules/ObjectiveC is also the same case; ObjectiveC_BUNDLE_LIBS should be 
> specified with library location,    instead of StelTalk_BUNDLE_LIBS

Fixed.
All dependencies you mentioned were not necessary on linux. I do not know why, 
but it worked.
.
> 5. Finally, path manipulation, I think this is related to NSPathUtilities, is 
> somewhat obscured. I'm not sure all errors
>     are related to this, but after successful build, the application does not 
> work. stupdate_languages itself does not
>     work. It just want to write configuration file to the wrong location(which 
> does not exist).  I'm also not sure whether
>     this is related to MSys environment or not.

This works ok, even if you do not have created directories. It should create 
Library/StepTalk/Configuration in your home GNUstep domain. Probably it is msys 
related.
> Hope this can help your debugging and my StepTalk life. :-)

Thak you for reports.

Btw. how is it with frameworks on windows? Do they work? The reason i am asking 
is, that i would like to change StepTalk library, ApplicationScripting bundle 
and some other bundles into frameworks. The reason is possible reusability of 
the code in other applications and projects. Moreover, I want to pack all 
resources together, so there will be no need to polluet System/Library with 
StepTalk stuff.

Stefan