On 2019-05-01 10:04:55 +0200 David Chisnall
<gnus...@theravensnest.org> wrote:
On 30/04/2019 21:45, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote:
If only I could... but Objc2 is still no an option on ppc linux and
that's precisely why I want to port rik to objc1.
Making Objective-C 2 work on PowerPC is almost certainly less effort
than
porting a codebase to an old dialect and maintaining a less
maintainable
fork. If you're happy with the slow message send paths (no
objc_msgSend,
just the old objc_msg_lookup then call the resulting IMP) and you're
not
using imp_implementationWithBlock then it should all work already,
modulo
build system issues.
I'd certainly be happy with it. The last time I tried (over a year
from now), the problem was a linker issue I could not resolve in
Debian Jessie. And it was a hassle. I don't have the knowledge to deal
with this kind of issues.
I'm eager to upgrade it to Debian unstable because there is a work in
progress to have it easily installable on macs.
I have here a powerbook G4 with a stable debian jessie, a good working
browser (Articfox) and a working gcc gnustep install which is my
day-to-day desktop. It works like a charm, really.
I may try another time someday to build libobjc2 but not on this
machine. But the more I wait, the more difficult to get are the
dependancies (clang for instance, is constantly moving from a version
to another). I'm not sure I would try with the new api of libobjc2
because I really don't want to build clang by myself. For now, objc1
does seem to be a sustainable effort to me while objc2 doesn't, sorry.
Cheers, Bertrand
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