Re: Compiling corebase on Windows

[Stefan Bidi]

I was able to up to a certain point with the installation of corebase on Windows, today.  I still have a few show stoppers, though.  The list is:

(1) GNUstepBase/preface.h includes windows.h and a conflict between Window's BOOL and ObjC's BOOL.  The fix is fairly simple, just add a define like David suggested.
(2) objc/runtime.h does not exist on Windows.  I'm not sure if this is because the windows installer is a little out of date or if this file isn't installed on Windows.  In either case, I had to work around it by including ObjetiveC2/runtime.h.  I would like to be able to just include objc/runtime.h like I do on Linux, though.
(3) ICU is not packages with the Windows installer.  I remember at one point it was, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the latest release.

I get a bunch of warnings about "import" being deprecated, but the compilation still goes through.

Stef

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Stefan Bidi <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:

I was able to track down the culprit... it's GNUstepBase/preface.h, which includes windows.h on line 64.  I'd submit a patch but I don't have -base's source on Windows.  In any case, putting the define/undef around the windows.h include fixes the problem for me.

Stef

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Stefan Bidi <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm still getting the error.  Corebase doesn't include any Windows headers, so it's something that is included as part of GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h.  Adding the #define around GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h doesn't do anything for me, same error but replaced with WINBOOL instead of BOOL.  How are other GNUstep libraries/applications not running into this same problem?

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:

I had the same problem with libobjc2 on Windows.  I worked around it by doing something like this:

#define BOOL WINBOOL
#include <windows_stuff.h>
#undef BOOL

And then including Objective-C headers.

David

On 25 Sep 2011, at 18:19, Stefan Bidi wrote:

> I booted into Windows today and figured it would be a good idea to try corebase there.  I ran into some problems that I was able to fix, but I don't know what to do with the set of error I'm getting now.  It's about BOOL being defined by both windef.h and objc/objc.h.  I'm sure I'm screwing something up, can anyone more familiar with Windows please shed some light?  I've attached the output.
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