Re: Objective C runtime on Solaris 9

[Daniel Santos]

Hello,

Just got back to this topic. I installed gcc version 2.95.3 from one of the distribution CD’s of Solaris 9.

It went into /opt/sfw.

Now, when I do configure of gnustep-base I get past the objc runtime error.

I am at the moment stuck on lib FFI. I built and installed version 1.20 from the gcc.gnu.org site.

The last lines of me running the configure script are :

checking ffi.h usability... yes

checking ffi.h presence... yes

checking for ffi.h... yes

checking callback.h usability... yes

checking callback.h presence... yes

checking for callback.h... yes

checking for forwarding callback in runtime... no

checking FFI library usage... none

You do not have an up-to-date libobjc library installed

GNUstep requires libffi (or ffcall) and proper libobjc hooks to do

invocations and DO.

(This does not apply on apple-apple-apple systems where DO is

not compatible with other GNUstep systems.)

You most likely do not want to build base without invocation support.

Many things (including Distributed Objects and undo/redo), won't work

at all without invocations.

If you really want to build -base without invocation support,

add --disable-invocations to the configure arguments.

For more information, read the GNUstep build guide, ffcall section:

http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide/index.html

configure: error: Incomplete support for ffi functionality.

I have lib FFI installed on /usr/local/ and my pkg config file in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig describing it is  below :

prefix=/usr/local

exec_prefix=${prefix}

libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib

includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: libffi

Description: Lib FFI

Version: 1.20

Libs: -L${libdir} -lffi

Cflags: -I${includedir} 

Can you help me !

Thanks,

Regards

Daniel Santos

On 8 Jun 2022, at 01:36, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Santos wrote:

I want to build GNUStep on a Solaris 9 machine. I have installed gcc and libgcc packages from the sunfkeeware site archive.
On ./configure it says there is no ObjectiveC runtime installed.
How can I get this to build ?

well gcc and libgcc are C, you need libobjc. Sunfreeware is very old, I
don't use it since ages - I did start working on GNUstep exactly on it!
BUt since then I migrated those old computers to NetBSD.

Solaris support is tricky, it has only older versions of gcc, but it
does work - we luckily still support it! I stand for that!

I haven't announced it public because I forgot to, but I made the
current versions of GNUstep for Solaris, with OpenCSW. SOlaris 10 and 11
wre complete, Solaris 9 has major packages with some limitations, due to
OpenSSL issues and Cairo issues, so it is compiled with xlib and some
packages are missing, but enough to play around and run "server apps"
and developer tools as some basic Desktop.

Riccardo