Re: GNUstep on 64 bit Windows - Patch for gnustep libobjc submitted

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 11.11.2008 um 15:47 schrieb Roland Schwingel:

> Hi...
>
> As already announced some days ago I will now start to submit the  
> patches for GNUstep base/libobjc to be working natively on 64bit  
> windows.
>
> This first patch submitted (patch #6668) in savannah's patch  
> manager covers the libobjc runtime. It is basically fixing gcc 4.4  
> warnings and only 2 slight
> modifications for dllimporing/exporting symbols due to some changes  
> in binutils/windows dll loader...
>
> So I hope this can easily be applied.
>
> Some general words: Everything looks quite well at presents, thanks  
> to the excellent work of the gnustep people over the last years for  
> 64bit linux support. We already have the first code up and running  
> natively on 64bit windows! The first patch for gnustep-base will be  
> submitted soon. The basic things appear to work quite nice. Full  
> testing will take some additional time.
>
> There is some issue about length of unsigned and method signatures,  
> but I will outline that in a seperate email.

It would be great of you if you could submit those patches also to  
the GCC mainline via http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ so that both forks  
don't diverge even further.

Select "libobjc" as component in bugzilla (and be prepared for some  
follow up comments by others)

> i.A. Roland Schwingel

regards,

        Lars
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