Re: State of gnustep under panther?

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 3 juin 04, à 00:54, Bill Northcott a écrit :

> > From: Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com>
> > Subject: Re: State of gnustep under panther?
>
> > It works, but you need to recompile the FSF gcc -- the gcc in panther
> > still has issues with the GNU runtime (Cocoa uses the NeXT Objective-C
> > runtime).
>
> 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.

thanks,

--
Nicolas Roard