Re: GNUstep on OS X

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2011, at 15:52, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>
> > By the way, in case someone is interested in fixing MacPorts rather  
> > than publishing an alternative and updated way to compile on OS X,  
> > the link to MacPorts bugtracker ticket is here:
> >
> > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/28063
>
> That bug report is about not being able to compile GNUstep with  
> Apple GCC.  This won't work, because Apple GCC can't target the GNU  
> runtime (clang can on OS X, so that might work, but it's untested).   
> GNUstep does not work with Apple's Objective-C runtime, which is  
> designed to work closely with Apple's Foundation.

Apple's gcc can target the GNU runtime (-fgnu-runtime), it simply  
doesn't do that by default and the GNU Objective runtime system isn't  
installed along with the developer tools (for obvious reasons).

> I'm not really sure what the objective is in using GNUstep on OS X.   
> You can use GNUstep Additions to get most of the GNUstep extensions  
> on top of Cocoa, and you can just use Cocoa if you want the core  
> APIs...

You can easily test that you applications work with GNUstep and you  
don't have to set up a virtual machine for that.

Wolfgang