Re: How to add Objective-C to GCC

[David Chisnall]

On 18 Aug 2013, at 23:49, Germán Arias <german@xelalug.org> wrote:

> On 2013-08-18 14:16:47 -0600 WaveOS <project.amsterdam07@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm installing gnustep on a system where i have GCC 4.1.2 without 
>> objective-c 
>> support.
>> 
>> i had added sucessfully gnustep-make, gnuste-base generates lots of 
>> GNUstepmakefiles
>> and even, when i tried to build Gworkspace, it had configure properly 
>> without 
>> asking for gnustep-gui.
>> 
>> But when i send "make install" i have the "objective-c compiler no 
>> installed".
>> 
>> I tried to bootstrap again GCC 4.1.2 and nothing. This is a system called 
>> Syllable 0.6.6 wich i'm actually tweaking..
> 
> In most distros you should install the package named gobjc.

GCC 4.1.2 is really old, however (2006?) and there were quite a few Objective-C 
bugs fixed in GCC 4.2.  As I recall, 4.1 had a nasty bug involving constant 
strings (not sure when this was fixed, possibly by 4.1.2), so it's probably not 
a good choice.  Is there a reason why you can't use clang?

David