Re: Porting autogsdoc to OSX

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

>Hi,
>

[major snipage]

>Does my argument make sense to all of you GNUsteppers? I'm aware of the 
>fact that for the benefit of being able to use some of the outstanding 
>GNUstep achievements on OS X this is possibly wasting scarce development 
>resources which might be better put to use elsewhere within GNUstep. On 
>the other hand it could possibly enable more OS X solutions being easily 
>portable to GNUstep by providing an interface to the kind of macros 
>(RETAIN(), RELEASE(), ...) that are not available on that platform but 
>vitable for GNUstep.
>

You can use GNUstep.h for the last problem. Since it is not in cvs 
anywhere (as far as I know) I have it here for you:

/* GNUstep.h - macros to make easier to port gnustep apps to macos-x
   Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Written by: Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>
   Date: March, October 2001
 
   This file is part of GNUstep.

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.
 
   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
   License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
   Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 
02111-1307, USA.
*/ 

#ifndef __GNUSTEP_GNUSTEP_H_INCLUDED_
#define __GNUSTEP_GNUSTEP_H_INCLUDED_

#ifndef GNUSTEP

#define AUTORELEASE(object)      [object autorelease]
#define TEST_AUTORELEASE(object) ({ if (object) [object autorelease]; })

#define RELEASE(object)          [object release]
#define TEST_RELEASE(object)     ({ if (object) [object release]; })

#define RETAIN(object)           [object retain]
#define TEST_RETAIN(object)      ({ if (object) [object retain]; })

#define ASSIGN(object,value)     ({\
     id __value = (id)(value); \
     id __object = (id)(object); \
     if (__value != __object) \
       { \
         if (__value != nil) \
           { \
             [__value retain]; \
           } \
         object = __value; \
         if (__object != nil) \
           { \
             [__object release]; \
           } \
       } \
   })

#define ASSIGNCOPY(object,value) ASSIGN(object, [[value copy] 
autorelease]);

#define DESTROY(object)          ({ \
     if (object) \
       { \
         id __o = object; \
         object = nil; \
         [__o release]; \
       } \
   })

#define CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL(X) \
NSAutoreleasePool *(X) = [NSAutoreleasePool new]

#define NSLocalizedString(key, comment) \
  [[NSBundle mainBundle] localizedStringForKey:(key) value:@"" table:nil]

#define _(X) NSLocalizedString (X, nil)
#define __(X) X

#define NSLocalizedStaticString(X, Y) X

#endif /* GNUSTEP */

#endif /* __GNUSTEP_GNUSTEP_H_INCLUDED_ */



btw. I think GNUstep2Cocoa.h would be a more clear name for this file, 
kinda selfexplaining.


>
>Cheers,
>
>   Marcus

greetings, Lars