How does the GC support work?

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Dupont
I'm thinking of building GNUstep with GC. Does it works? How does that work? I need to know a bit about the internal as I'm using GNUstep through a managed C++ wrapper and wonder how this will work... ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list

Re: How does the GC support work?

2006-06-08 Thread David Wetzel
Lloyd Dupont wrote: I'm thinking of building GNUstep with GC. Does it works? hi, I am very sure that it does not work as you expect because 99,% of the people use it with refcounting (retain/release). Dave -- _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_)

Re: How does the GC support work?

2006-06-08 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 8 Jun 2006, at 10:12, Lloyd Dupont wrote: I'm thinking of building GNUstep with GC. Does it works? Probably not well ... I think it's been years since anyone used it ... of course someone may know different, but if anyone had been actively using it I would have hoped they would have

Re: How does the GC support work?

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Dupont
So if my understanding of what you said is correct only libobjc must be recompiled with Boehm GC to have a Garbage Collected GNUstep app, right? And retain/release will do nothing, wether or not I recompiled gnustep-base with GC? I suppose I should use the library in dev-libs/libobjc? And,

install gnustep on Windows

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Dupont
I want to write a second clean install from scratch of GNUstep, including everythin (MinGW, etc..) There was a nice how to web page. However I can't find it again and it seems to be nowhere visible on the web site. Any idea where this how to install GNUstep on Mingw page might be?

Re: install gnustep on Windows

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Dupont
found it! http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_on_Windows in fact there was a link it's late Regards, Lloyd Dupont NovaMind development team NovaMind Software Mind Mapping Software www.nova-mind.com - Original Message - From: Lloyd Dupont [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Preserving newlines

2006-06-08 Thread Nate Smith
Hello, In my application I read in a c-string, convert that c-string to an NSString, and then print that NSString using printf. If I input a newline character into the c-string, when I print the NSString, it prints out the '\n' character, instead of a newline. Here's the code (I don't really use

Re: Preserving newlines

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Vetter
On 2006-06-08 17:57:22 +0200 Nate Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when I run it, and enter in: Hi\n That is four (4) characters you entered It prints out: output: |Hi\n| So four (4) characters are printed, but I want it to print out: output: |Hi | and not three (3) as you would want

POC / gcc

2006-06-08 Thread Corey
Greetings! Quick question: Does anyone here know what features are lacking in POC that gcc's objc compiler supports? I'm finding myself interested in a platform ( Plan 9 ) which does not have access to a complete gnu toolchain, so I'm looking into the Portable Object Compiler as a possible

Re: POC / gcc

2006-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I think this provides a good and short answer: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/18544 W. -- An eye for an eye only makes the world blind. (Gandhi) ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org