Re: GNUstep - Documentation

[Bob Plymale]

It seems all of the documentation for install configuration is dated and no longer works as described, such as the Windows installer, It didn't play well, so I dropoped it. Then it was recommended to follow the tutorial gnustep/tools-windows-msvc at https://github.com/gnustep/tools-windows-msvc. This one had potiential but alas running the build.bat script bombed with the following errors:

1 warning generated.
 Linking library libgnustep-corebase ...
lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) pthread_once
>>> referenced by C:\Users\bplym\Desktop\tools-windows-msvc\src\gnustep-corebase\Source\CFRunLoop.c:436
>>>               obj/libgnustep-corebase.obj/CFRunLoop.c.o:(CFRunLoopGetCurrent)
>>> referenced by C:\Users\bplym\Desktop\tools-windows-msvc\src\gnustep-corebase\Source\CFRunLoop.c:462
>>>               obj/libgnustep-corebase.obj/CFRunLoop.c.o:(CFRunLoopGetMain)

lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) pthread_getspecific
>>> referenced by C:\Users\bplym\Desktop\tools-windows-msvc\src\gnustep-corebase\Source\CFRunLoop.c:438
>>>               obj/libgnustep-corebase.obj/CFRunLoop.c.o:(CFRunLoopGetCurrent)

lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) pthread_setspecific
>>> referenced by C:\Users\bplym\Desktop\tools-windows-msvc\src\gnustep-corebase\Source\CFRunLoop.c:442
>>>               obj/libgnustep-corebase.obj/CFRunLoop.c.o:(CFRunLoopGetCurrent)

lld-link: error: undefined symbol: __declspec(dllimport) pthread_key_create
>>> referenced by C:\Users\bplym\Desktop\tools-windows-msvc\src\gnustep-corebase\Source\CFRunLoop.c:424
>>>               obj/libgnustep-corebase.obj/CFRunLoop.c.o:(_CFRunLoopCreateThreadKey)
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[4]: *** [/c/GNUstep/x64/Debug/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Instance/library.make:307: obj/gnustep-corebase.lib] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/c/GNUstep/x64/Debug/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Instance/library.make:292: internal-library-all_] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/c/GNUstep/x64/Debug/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/rules.make:297: libgnustep-corebase.all.library.variables] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/c/GNUstep/x64/Debug/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/library.make:37: internal-all] Error 2
make: *** [/c/GNUstep/x64/Debug/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/serial-subdirectories.make:53: internal-all] Error 2
Failed

I have some macOS code that I want to make multiplatform so I was leaning towards rewrite in wxWidgets so my code portable. Basically if I could get objective-c to work on windows and linux that would be my portable code, and to say I really enjoy coding in objective-c regardless of what Apple does with thee version.

Bob