Re: building GNUstep from scratch

[Scott Christley]

Thanks Riccardo, after awhile I had the same thought. I tried using GCC and everything seemed to go well, though I haven't tried my code yet but will soon.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I need the modern runtime or not. I do use NSInvocation stuff quite a bit but I don't think this code base needs the runtime introspection stuff...

I did get further and was able to compile libobjc2 completely after setting cc and c++ to clang. However, two tests failed so maybe that's the recent difficulties you were mentioning.

The following tests FAILED:

25 - PropertyIntrospectionTest2 (OTHER_FAULT)

26 - PropertyIntrospectionTest2_optimised (OTHER_FAULT)

thanks

Scott

On Aug 21, 2018, at 04:46 PM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

Do you actually need the "modern" runtime or do you just need current APIs. In case, just stick with GCC.
If you wish libobjc2, then compile everything with clang (and reconfigure/build also gnustep make and base afterwards).

I am having some difficulties with libobjc2 lately, for others it is fine. If you can, get the latest gnustep-make and configure with --library-combo=ng-gnu-gnu and it should be smooth. Richard recently fixed some stuff there.

Riccardo