Re: Problem with static linking against libgnustep-baseadd

[Adam Fedor]

I think I accidently rejected this...

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Date: 2005-10-03 21:47:11 +0200
From: Benoit <b.astruc@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Problem with static linking against libgnustep-baseadd


Le 28 sept. 05, à 05:49, Adam Fedor a écrit :
>
> On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Benoit wrote:
>
>>      I am working on Mac OS X where I have installed libgnustep-baseadd 
>> (both the shared and the static version).
>>
>>      When I link my app against the shared version all is ok. But when I 
>> link against the static (in order to be able to distribute it to 
>> other users without libgnustep installed) the app failed to find 
>> methods from libgnustep-baseadd :
>>
>> *** -[NSCFString stringByTrimmingSpaces]: selector not recognized
>> 2005-09-26 00:18:44.658 WRP[23859] Exception raised during posting of 
>> notification.  Ignored.  exception: *** -[NSCFString 
>> stringByTrimmingSpaces]: selector not recognized
>>
>>
> Static linking isn't well tested (well, not tested at all). Perhaps 
> try compiling with
>
> make messages=yes
>
> to see what is getting linked in each case (shared and static) to see 
> if there is a difference.

        Is message=yes doing the same thing than adding a C-flag -v ? If yes 
then I have done it and there isn't a lot of differences. I have also 
try to take the static library  and to deploy it on other computers. 
This way my app can link to the library but the library try to link 
against others library which obviously weren't present...

>  What about compiling as a framework and including it with your app?

        I have try to compile it as a framework with the Xcode project 
included but it failed (lack of some file if I remind well). I just see 
that there is a new release so I will try again with it later. It looks 
like the best idea, but I am not sure it will solved some issues with 
multi-library dependecies.

        
        Having GNUstep base-additions as a framework on Mac OS X would be very 
great. I have read in the archive other post on this subject but no one 
seems having succeed.

        For my app it's no longer an issue, I just wanted to use some 
categories on NSMutableString so I just create the categorie in my 
project and copy paste the code.

        (Well first I wanted to use GSXML but after writing some code it 
appears a memory bug (dealloc of an object released earlier) that I was 
unable to locate. This plus the dependecies on other libraries have 
done that I choose to write a little piece of code to parse my (very 
simple) xml document and load it in a NSMutableDictionary for latter 
use in my app).


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Benoit