On 29/10/2018 14:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
It is based on an older mingw environment and I am having big
difficulties upgrading it, still in the realm of remaining on mingw
32bit and gcc (no libobjc2)
For anyone interested in the libobjc2 status:
libobjc2 with the new ABI does not yet handle DLLs on Windows properly.
Windows DLLs provide some cleaner abstractions than *NIX shared objects,
but this means a global variable in one DLL cannot be initialised to
point to globals in another. We have been working on some solutions to
this, and I think it's now sensible, but we haven't yet upstreamed the
changes to clang. Once this is done, we should be able to ship a
libobjc.dll as a pure Windows DLL, useable by both WinObjC and GNUstep
with either Cygwin or MinGW. The new ABI uses Windows-compatible
exception handling, so it's safe to mix Visual Studio-compiled C++ code
with Objective-C and throw exceptions between languages.
I hope to get this all done, tested, and upstreamed before the LLVM 8.0
release.
David
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