Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out here... I've been working for 14 hours straight trying to get GNUstep-base installed on FreeBSD and Mac OS X 10.7 / Lion. I've made literally zero progress. I'm only trying to install gnustep-make and gnustep-base. I don't need any of the GUI stuff.
Obviously the Mac Ports option is a no-go, as old and neglected. And the port is not working on FreeBSD for me either. So I'm having to do it straight from source. I think I have all the prereqs installed, including libffi and libobjc for good measure. On the Mac, I spent a good amount of time getting a separate FSF gcc installed. Actually gnustep-make seems to have installed fine on both machines. I sourced the GNUstep.sh file, I'm seeing the right environmental variables, but when I go to ./configure, it bails out, saying "checking FFI library usage... none. You do not have either ffcall or libffi installed/enabled, or configure needs --with-ffi-include and/or --with-ffi-library flags so GNUstep can find them," I'm specifying my ffi location in the configure arguments, but it doesn't seem to take. I've tried every variation I can think of. All of my Googling only brings up other people having the same problem, not any solutions. In my mind, it raises a few eyebrows that GNUstep's configure script (or InstallGNUStep script) can't find a library it depends on so heavily. I thought about switching to ffcall, but that library seems deprecated if not abandoned. If anyone can share their tips on how to get GNUstep to build on any platform, there are really no words for how grateful I would be. Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
