Re: HelpViewer 0.3 : error while linking [RESOLVED]

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Riccardo,

I realize that I kept this thread about Cynthiune, but the title were 
about 'HelpViewer' and this could be confusing for people who might 
read the list to search help about this.
So I close this thread, because I was finally able to build HelpViewer 
0.3 with clang 7 today. ;-)

P.S. : I will go on about Cynthiune with the appropriate previous 
thread : "Building Cynthiune 0.9.5 : linker error (ld.gold)"

Cheers,
Patrick

--
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA
On 2020-06-29 23:26:16 +0200 Riccardo Mottola 
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> thanks for your interest in GAP application, first thing.
> I am revived my Raspberry PI 1 to "jessie" (still unsure if I can 
> update it 
> further, but i had to reinstall, the past attempt to update it 
> bricked it).
> Then I also have RPI3 and RPI4 to test with GNUstep. You just gave me 
> the 
> impulse to buy another one and keep it as light computer at my 
> parents! Seems 
> to work fine, but e.g. I noticed that for some reason GNUMail is not 
> 100% 
> reliable like on x86, needs to be tested further.
>
>
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
> > So maybe that particular app which is not useful for everyone (I am 
> > not a 
> > member of salesforce.com)
> > should not be a part of the 'gap' ?
>
> Why shouldn't it? GAP contains many apps, you are not forced an 
> "install 
> everything" approach.
> Also, a beginner should be best served by packages - if available.
>
>
> > I think a good approach for the beginners should allow a simple make 
> > at the 
> > root of the gap tree  to discover
> > the basic apps.
> > But If some app like Databasin is blocking the whole making process, 
> > this 
> > root GNUmakefile in the top of the gap tree
> > becomes useless, and somebody guessing how to make the apps might 
> > find by 
> > hand what bundle to make first,
> > and son on.
> > Also, like Patryck dit it for the GNUstep core project, it would be 
> > very 
> > useful to supply a script to get first all the relative dependencies.
>
> You are not forced to build & install everything. Personally I don't 
> use 
> those top-level makefiles either, I install and upgrade the specific 
> apps.
>
> > Have seen that... I don't know, all this linker stuff is a mess. I 
> > did try
> > > with gcc and its runtime and it worked some weeks ago. So many 
> > > variants,
> > > sorry.
> > Well, I wanted to use clang because many advices at the list said it 
> > would 
> > be better to learn Objectice-C and create new apps with that modern 
> > compiler.
> > But I feel that with my RPI 32 bit, and the tests you did, I should 
> > revert 
> > to the 'old' GCC and make it all again,
>
> you really should be able to use both and both should work in my 
> opinion and 
> then decide your won taste what to use.
> If only Cythiune is giving you erros, maybe somebody has a hint on 
> how to fix 
> linking!
>
>
>
>
> > > (do you have alsa, libasound and it's dev libraries installed? 
> > > otherwise 
> > > try
> > > some other backend
> > yes. I did install those ALSA dependencies.
>
> > )
>
> if somebody can reproduce... I never compiled cynthiune on raspberry, 
> since I 
> don't have sound attached to it, but I could try.
>
> Riccardo