Begin forwarded message:
> From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu Mar 07, 2002 06:15:47 AM Europe/London
> To: Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: GNUstep under mingw
>
>
> On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 12:11 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
>> I am running GNUstep with mingw and there are a few problems left.
>> First you hae to use the cygwin make (/usr/bin/make) otherwise the
>> common.make file gives an error as it tests the $PATH variable to
>> include the GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools directory. For this to work also
>> the environment variable GNUSTEP_TARGET_OS has to be set to mingw32,
>> which is not mentioned in the README.mingw.
>
> I read about that somewhere ... I thought it was in README.MinGW
>
>> You should also download a iconv library, gnustep base runs without
>> one, but it will be needed later on. (BTW Why do we run without iconv,
>> but need libxml2?)
>
> We don't need either ... I'm running under mingw without libxml.
> Where did you find iconv for windoze? Is there anything we need to
> know about
> installing it? We should add it to the README. We should also find
> out about
> installing libxml and add that to the README too.
>
>> Even after solving all this there is a problem when compiling the
>> Testing code of base:
>>
>>
<snip>
>> shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-gnu/benchmark.o: In function
>> `bench_object':
>> //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
>> h:
>> 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
>> //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
>> h:
>> 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
>> //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
>> h:
>> 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
>> //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
>> h:
>> 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
>> //c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/base/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.
>> h:
>> 178: undefined reference to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone'
>> shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-
>> gnu/benchmark.o://c/users/kiefer/GNUstep/core/ba
>> se/Testing/../Headers/Foundation/NSZone.h:178: more undefined
>> references to `__nszone_private_hidden_default_zone' follow
>> make[1]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/mingw32/gnu-gnu-gnu/benchmark.exe]
>> Error 1
>> make: *** [benchmark.all.test-tool.variables] Error 2
>>
>>
>> This lloks like we need to export more than just the classes from our
>> DLL. Has anybody else faced this problem and how could it be resolved?
>
> I ran across that problem at one point while I was messing about with
> this stuff ... but
> a rebuild/re-install of the library made the problem go away again. I
> guessed that under
> windoze the library needs to be installed before you can build
> executables ... but as the
> problem only happened to me once I never tested that guess.
>
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