Re: Re[2]: PROPOSAL: Objective-C++

[Stephen Brandon]

It's not so bad. Get hold of mingw (www.mingw.org), then follow instructions 
from core/make/Documentation/MinGW.README. You need to install quite a few 
packages in all to make it work, but it can be made to work! The advantage of 
using MinGW on top of Cygwin is that you get the nice shells and tools of 
Cygwin, whereas the finished compiled binaries do not require the cygwin.dll 
to be installed (thus preventing licensing issues).

Actually, it's still quite tricky to get it all working, but definitely 
possible (I have done it fairly recently and rely on it).

One of the packages you need to install is libobjc, which gives you the 
support that the Cygwin folks left out.

Stephen Brandon
stephen@brandonitconsulting.co.uk

On Tuesday 20 Nov 2001 5:00 pm, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is a bit out of topic but...
>
> I'm trying to build up Gstep Base on the latest Cygwin which comes
> with gcc 2.95.3-5. Unfortunately it wasn't compiled with ObjC enable
> then I'm stopped :-(
>
> On the FAQ of Cygwin I can read the following
>
> "Where is Objective C?
>
> Objective C is not distributed with the Cygwin version of gcc, and there
> are no plans to do so. The gcc package maintainer had difficulty building
> it, and once built there were problems using it. It appears that there is
> only minimual support for the Objective C front-end in the main GCC
> distribution, anyway."
>
> I didn't notice gcc support for ObjC was "so minimal"...
>
> I would like to know wihch version of our favorite compiler was used
> by those of us who have already compiled and install gstep-base. How
> did they enable ObjC in it etc...
>
> Later, Yann