Re: GNUstep - Documentation

[Bob Plymale]

Thank you for the support. If and when I can do a successful install, configure and a successful build I will update the docs so the next user has an easier time.

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On Jul 25, 2021, at 6:00 AM, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:



Bob,

you should not give up too soon. Just ignore the corebase error and go ahead and compile GNUstep gui and core. You will need some extra libraries for these. Not having done a Windows compile in years, I don't remember which ones. But after that you should be able to compile and run your own code.

Cheers,

Fred

On the road

Am 25.07.2021 um 11:23 schrieb Bob Plymale <bplymale@gmail.com>:

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