Re: porting to GNUstep from OSX

[David Bishop]

[Meta: Rereading my email, it probably sounds like I was deriding OCunit or 
PyObjC for not already supporting GNUstep, but that wasn't what I meant to 
say.  I know it's tough to support platforms that you don't use :-)]

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 03:53 pm, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi David,
> I recently ported OCUnit to GNUstep. Marco forwarded me your email
> regarding incompatibility with gcc 3.3. So far, I have only be able to
> test with Apple's gcc 3.3 on Panther - no problems at all. The missing
> header forces a warning, but that's not fatal.

The build goes fine, the link fails (for me).  I'm thinking the OSX runtime 
defines those while GNUstep doesn't.

Regarding your port, could I get ahold of it somehow?  I'm more than willing 
to test stuff out, and I have access to both Jaguar and GNUstep.  I'm 
ecstatic that someone else did it already, I have no pride bound up in 
this...

And finally, what exactly did you have to change to make OCunit work with 
GNUstep?  I have a feeling that I will be doing very similar things with 
PyObjC.

> I don't know how the header problem could be solved elegantly besides
> using autoconf, but that wouldn't be acceptable on OSX anyways - it
> just doesn't fit into the picture using PBX (or Xcode).

Not knowing a ton* about the build process of PBX/Xcode, does it allow for 
tests at all?  At least in PyObjC you run setup.py, which has some (very, 
very, basic) tests to see what version of OSX you are using, and if you are 
on GNUstep or not.  Pretty much everything that needs to be done can be based 
off of that (at least so far).  Maybe just some #ifndef's, combined with -D's 
in the GNUMakefile would be enough? (I.e., #ifndef GNUSTEP #include 
<objc/runtime.h> #endif)

And last and definetly least, did he forward my message about making all the 
headers in ocunit #include-safe?  How useful is that exactly?  I didn't know 
if that was something that only the gcc-guys cared about, or if GNUstep'ers 
were also anti-import...  (If he didn't forward that message, at 
http://bishop.dhs.org/~david/senheaders.tgz is a copy of all the ocunit 
headers, fixed to work without -Wno-imports flag)

*anything

Thanks for the response.

-- 
"Sorry about the whole 'bomb' thing" - Bruce Rollins
D.A.Bishop

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