Re: Use of libobjc from gcc 4.1 with MinGW

[Helge Hess]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 14:47, Xavier Glattard wrote:
> An other stupid question :
> why dont link _only_ gnustep-base to a static libobjc ?

Because your Objective-C code needs to access functions contained in  
libobjc?


> So you would not had multiple objc runtime !

In theory the gnustep-base.dll could contain the libobjc, but then it  
would need to expose the libobjc API in its DLL wrapper AND you would  
need to tell all your makefiles that they don't need to link libobjc.

And you would need to tell gcc/ld *not* to link libobjc  
automatically. This could be the hardest part since internal  
libraries of GCC have weird lookup hacks in the compiler (-L has  
different semantics).

I don't think its a good idea to embed libobjc into gnustep-base.  
Though I'm not 100% sure ;-)

Helge
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