Re: Linking against an uninstalled framework

[Nicola Pero]

On 15 Jul 2009, at 12:55, Wolfgang Lux wrote:

> Hello,
>
> what are the correct linker flags in a GNUmakefile for linking an  
> application against an uninstalled framework? So far, the best I  
> could find are the following definitions from SystemPreferences.app:
>
>  ifeq ($(findstring mingw32, $(GNUSTEP_TARGET_OS)), mingw32)
>    ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS += -L../../PreferencePanes/$ 
> (FRAMEWORK_NAME).framework/$(GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR)
>  else
>    ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS += -L../../PreferencePanes/$ 
> (FRAMEWORK_NAME).framework/Versions/Current/$(GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR)
>  endif

Hi Wolfgang,

  ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS += -L../../PreferencePanes/$ 
(FRAMEWORK_NAME).framework/$(GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR)

should always work in gnustep-make v2, without any conditionals, no  
matter if versions are enabled or not.  That is supported since  
gnustep-make 1.98.1 (March 2007). :-)

I assume that the GNUmakefile for SystemPreferences.app was written  
when gnustep-make 1.x was still being used, and that the conditional  
was later kept as a backwards-compatibility hack. ;-)

I wouldn't worry too much about these gnustep-make v1 compatibility  
hacks - gnustep-make v2 is now over 2 years old (gnustep-make 2.0.0  
was released in April 2007) so they are becoming increasingly  
irrelevant.  We could keep the existing ones in place for another year  
or two, but I definitely wouldn't use them in new software. ;-)

Thanks