Re: Emacs looking for support

[Eric Wasylishen]

Hi Stefan,

I just tried building emacs from bzr against gnustep trunk.

Emacs compilation fails at the following command where it's linking the temacs 
executable, because the gnustep library includes, as well as -lobjc, are in the 
wrong place - they need to be moved to the end of the command like the rest of 
the -l flags:

gcc -std=gnu99 -rdynamic -Demacs  -I. -I/home/ericwa/emacs/src -I../lib 
-I/home/ericwa/emacs/src/../lib    -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing 
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/alsa   -pthread 
-I/usr/include/librsvg-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 
-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 
-I/usr/include/freetype2    -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 
-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include        -MMD -MF deps/.d -MP     
-g3 -O2   -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lgnustep-gui -lgnustep-base -lobjc 
-lpthread  \
          -o temacs  dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o  window.o 
charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o bidi.o cm.o term.o 
terminal.o xfaces.o   dbusbind.o emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o 
buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o cmds.o 
casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o 
editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o syntax.o 
unexelf.o bytecode.o process.o gnutls.o callproc.o region-cache.o sound.o 
atimer.o doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o xml.o profiler.o       
fontset.o fringe.o image.o nsterm.o nsfns.o nsmenu.o nsselect.o nsimage.o 
nsfont.o terminfo.o lastfile.o    vm-limit.o   ../lib/libgnu.a       -lasound   
-pthread -lrsvg-2 -lm -lgio-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lgmodule-2.0 
-lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0    -lrt  -lrt  -ldbus-1 -lpthread 
-lrt    -lxml2      -ltinfo        -lgnutls   -lpthread   -lm

I attached a patch which fixes compilation (although it's still wrong in that 
the gs libs are hardcoded.)

The app runs for me, although there are several problems:
-scrollbars are positioned incorrectly
-some characters in the modeline are drawn as boxes
-clicking in the text causes all open windows to flicker for several seconds 
and the scrollbar to jump around
-toolbar doesn't work 

Hopefully this is a bit of help. 

Eric

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On 2012-11-24, at 8:46 PM, Germán A. Arias <german@xelalug.org> wrote:

> El sáb, 24-11-2012 a las 17:06 -0500, Stefan Monnier escribió:
>> Ever since Emacs switched its macosx support from the old Carbon code to
>> the new NS code, Emacs has provided some kind of support to run as an
>> GNUstep application.
>> 
>> But nobody gave it the love it needs, so while it partly works, it is
>> also mostly unusable.  So the Emacs team is looking for someone to help
>> bring the GNUstep port of Emacs to a usable state.
>> 
>> 
>>        Stefan
> 
> A year ago I was testing emacs with gnustep, but sometimes this was
> annoying. I was using the emacs from bazaar. Sometimes I was able to
> compile emacs, and sometimes I had errors (after some changes in the
> trunk). Some days ago, I decided test again, but this time with the
> latest stable release of emacs package. At this moment I'm unable to
> build emacs. Even when all seem OK in configuration, I get errors in
> compilation. I will try to found where is the problem here. But using
> the stable release, because bazaar is too slow with my internet
> connection.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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