Re: porting to GNUstep from OSX

[Marcus Müller]

Hi David,

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 11:14 PM, David Bishop wrote:

> My first problem, with both projects, is that they use some header 
> files that
> simply don't exist for me: runtime.h and objc-class.h, both in the objc
> subdirectory.  They use the methods class_getClassMethod and
> class_add_method_list (probably more, but that's were the compile/link 
> dies).
> Any idea what the GNUstep equivelant is?  The only any slightly 
> related docs
> I could find were about gcc 3.3 at 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html,
> where it mentions that you "No longer need to include 
> objc/objc-class.h to
> compile self calls in class methods (NeXT runtime only)."  Well, 
> that's good,
> because as far as I can tell objc-class.h didn't exist in 3.2, either.
> Pointers?  Tips?  Hints?  Oh, and if you must know, the two things I'm 
> trying
> to get running are ocunit (a unit tester) and PyObjC (python bindings 
> for
> ObjC and Cocoa).

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.

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).

Cheers,

  Marcus

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