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Re: -gui and ffcall/ffi
From: |
Dennis Leeuw |
Subject: |
Re: -gui and ffcall/ffi |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:07:51 +0100 |
How is the status of the ffi support instead of ffcall?
I am in the process of upgrading my system to the latest and the
greatest of all dependancy packages for a new build from scratch test of
GNUstep.
Is the ffi support "stable" or should I still use ffcall?
Any pointers/help appreciated.
Greetings,
Dennis Leeuw
Thomas Cherryhomes wrote:
>
> I had a noted absence from GNUstep, which was punctuated by GNUstep's
> inability,
> for a time, to run on my Gentoo installation.
>
> However, in the last few days, thanks to the help of Alex Malmberg, I have
> found
> the answer to the problem:
>
> -gui will not function properly without ffcall/ffi due to the use of
> distributed
> objects to glue parts of -gui together.
>
> we need to decide what to do with ffcall/ffi... is it required or not?
> Apparently, it seems that -base and -gui will compile just fine without
> ffcall,
> but -gui apps will fail miserably when starting to load. (DO ports
> invalidating
> because gdnc and gpbs can't function.)..
>
> I suggested that ffcall should now be a requirement. Alex suggested that we
> should put a flag in base that allows one to override the requirement of
> ffcall
> from base.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Thom
>
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