Re: GNUstep stack trace & gnustep-base.dll path

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 4 May 2006, at 07:57, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> I confused myself.
> There was a bug.
> Here is the corrected version which read both current process and  
> gnustep-base.dll symbols.
> And display your stack trace.

I would dearly like to see stacktrace capability contributed to the  
base library (I guess in NSDebug.m or NSException.m)

> Problem is I would like to replace 'gnustep-base.dll' by a more  
> multiplatform constant / invocation.
> One that could read 'gnustep-base.dll' on windows and 'gnustep- 
> base.dylib' on MacOSX for example...
>
> Any tips?

There is objc_get_symbol_path() ... which is used in NSBundle.m and  
NSPathUtilities.m to get the path of the library.

I don't think it works on *all* platforms, but it does work on the  
main ones (gnu/linux, and windows at least).