Re: State of gnustep under panther?

[Nicolas Roard]

> > What issues?  I use Apple compilers to build Swarm code on Panther 
> > using the GNU runtime.
> >
> > I have issues with forwarding of Objective-C messages, but these are 
> > just the same with the FSF compiler.  They are caused by problems 
> > with the gcc builtin functions on all RISC processors.  Indeed the 
> > relevant sections of the gcc code are identical in both Apple and FSF 
> > versions.  (The Apple runtime forwards properly because it uses quite 
> > different code.)
> >
> > As far as I can see, the remarks in the README about memory problems 
> > only apply to Darwin/x86.
>
> Hm... well, I could perhaps be wrong then. I installed GNUstep on OSX 
> a few months ago and I don't remember if I had tried to use panther 
> gcc or not -- perhaps I directly installed the fsf gcc...
> I'll try to do a compilation on panther tomorrow. If that works 
> without needing the fsf gcc, that would be quite nice, indeed.

Well, I tried to build gnustep using the last available (for me) gcc 
from developer.apple.com (Dec 2003 gccLongBranch Tools, as I'm not able 
to download XCode 1.2 ...)

and it didn't work :-/
I'm not able to build libffi in fact, taking libffi from the PyObjc 
project -- from their latest release -- it doesn't compile.

Any ideas ? I think that if you're able to run Swarm with the GNU 
runtime with the standard gcc from apple, there is no reason we can't 
also build GNUstep ... :-/

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Nicolas Roard