On 1 Aug 2018, at 21:43, Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net> wrote: > > I'm not actively using it, but as this holds my interest, I could give > it a shot.
Great! > Could you, along with clang and runtime binaries, provide build > instructions up to a trivial -base app? I haven’t actually tried to build GNUstep yet. The runtime is built as a native Windows DLL with no external dependencies. I believe it should work with the SEH versions of MinGW and with anything built with Visual Studio. GCC gained SEH support around 4.9ish, so exceptions should interoperate with any C/C++/Objective-C/whatever code that is built with a vaguely recent GCC, clang, ICC, or MSVC with an MSVC-compatible target triple. > Could you clarify what you mean by using with a different linker? I > generally just have clang pick a linker on other platform (as with > gcc); how does one tell clang which linker to use? I think I haven't > uninstalled it, so I think I have msvc set up, but it'd be nice to be > able to use a free toolchain. The Windows builds of clang appear to default to invoking link.exe. If you use -fuse-ld=lld, then I believe it will try to use lld-link.exe on Windows, which is the link.exe-compatible lld frontend. I do not yet have a build of lld for Windows, so I haven’t tested it yet. I’ve no idea how well BFD ld works (gold, as I recall, doesn’t support anything other than ELF). From the lld web site, I believe that it supports all of the linker features that I use, so it should be possible to build with an entirely free toolchain (modulo the fact that you’re linking to a bunch of non-Free system libraries, running on a non-Free OS, using a non-Free windowing system, and so on). > Have you, before this, tried using libobjc2 with clang with mingw64 w/ > msys, or with cygwin? Before I started at MSR, the most recent version of Windows I’d used was Windows 2000. I started working on libobjc2 after I stopped using Windows, so this is the first time that I’ve trued using both together. David _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep