On 01-12-2007 01:40:15 +0100, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: [snip useful information] > Conclusion: > > Installing GNUstep using gnustep-startup is quite easy and straight forward > given that the target system already has the dependencies installed. This > might be the case for a great many of Linux systems (although I ran across > several Linuxes that came with a gcc missing ObjC support (I remember SuSE > 7.1 PPC here) it is definitely not the case for OS X - which is where a > fair amount of our current target audience (read: folks we don't need to > explain OpenStep/Cocoa to) sits. > Installing all those dependencies might be a no-brainer for a seasoned UNIX > crack but is nearly incomprehensible for a newbee. > The major obstacle was clearly gcc itself (although the installation of it > is now easier than it used to be): The right version of the sources it not > easy to find, it takes ages to install and it will conflict (in OS X's > case) with Apple's gcc. > > Maybe those issues are solvable when installing at least the dependencies > using the packaging/ports system for the particular platform. Then again it > would be great if GNUstep itself was also available at those > packaging/ports systems (It is at least available for macports - even > though I don't know it's current status of maintenance.)
I never got GNUstep to compile/work on OSX, and most probably you told me why, because I always use gcc-apple, not the FSF one. However, that still does not address the linking issues... It is great to know that it actually /can/ work on OSX! Slightly off topic: A problem we/I have with maintaining GNUstep at Gentoo is that it seems there are a lot of commits in the svn repository, but releases are not so frequent. Maintaining them for Gentoo/Alt:Prefix is even worse as I am just in bad luck with getting it to compile/run correctly for Linux, Solaris and OSX. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
