Re: Linking frameworks does not work

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 2 May 2018, at 16:10, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot. I added
> 
>    [SRMailDelivery sendMailFrom:@"asas" to:@"asas" subject:@"asas" 
> body:@"asas" attachmentsAndFilenames:nil];
> 
> to the code and this indeed forced SRFoundation to be linked in. The 
> execption happens now later when trying to call a category method of just 
> another framework. 
> 
> This is indeed painful and annoying and has not always been that way in the 
> past, not on Solaris with GNUstep make and also not on Debian and Kubuntu and 
> definitely not on MacOSX. 

I think it *has* always been the case on GNU/Linux (which includes Debian and 
Kubuntu) as it's a function of how the system tools resolve symbols, not a 
function of gnustep-make.
Certainly I recall having to explicitly reference classes to do that in the 
1990s

> Does this mean that I have to define a dummy class in each framework and 
> include calls to these dummy classes for every 12 frameworks I have in use at 
> app launch? How annoying and dirty is that? :-( There is no cleaner solution?

Lookingt at gnustep-make (frameword.make), it creates a dummy class in each 
framework anyway (to hold information needed by NSBundle).  Perhaps you could 
leverage that.