Re: MacPorts GNUstep

[Gregory Casamento]

Hey Ivan,

Let me know if I can help you get Gorm building.

GC
P.S. My internet connection is down, my provider is coming tomorrow to
fix the issue so I should be able to help on Tuesday.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In interests of sharing current work on getting MacPorts to work, my porfiles 
> have been dropped in my public Dropbox folder:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8559454/gnustep-macports-ivucica_1.zip
>
> Since I have these files in /Users/ivucica, this is what I have added in 
> /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> file:///Users/ivucica/ivucicaMacPorts/
>
> I'd really love to hear experiences and thoughts. I'm new at creating 
> Portfiles, and this is pretty much untested on anything except my local 
> machine. I did not force port "gcc44" to be installed, but both gnustep-make 
> and gnustep-base ports assume that you have it installed. Getting feedback 
> would mean that someone else is interested in this, and that I can perhaps 
> exchange thoughts with another interested party.
>
> To test, after configuring as described above:
> sudo port install gnustep-make gnustep-base gnustep-gui system-preferences
>
> Here's a screenshot; SystemPreferences.app looks really lovely under OS X :)
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8559454/gnustep-macports-ivucica_1.png
>
> On 8. tra. 2011., at 14:47, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> after fixing gnustep-base (and making minor changes to gnustep-make to get 
>> -base to compile) that I've talked about, compiling gnustep-gui and 
>> system-preferences went without problems.
>>
>> Gorm does not compile (I did not yet investigate why, apart from missing 
>> GSNibItem) and GNUMail can't be compiled because of problems with compiling 
>> poppler, unrelated to GNUstep.
>>
>> I'm however very interested in issues with compiling Zcode. I've got all 
>> these programs to compile by adjusting Portfile to use gcc-mp-4.4 (MacPorts 
>> GCC, version 4.4.5). However, Zcode uses Objective-C 2.0 features such as 
>> properties, so I went and forced use of clang from MacPorts.
>>
>> I'm getting this very confusing issue:
>>
>> The-Evil-MacBook:Zcode ivucica$ openapp ./Zcode
>> Module (null) version 9 doesn't match runtime 8
>> Abort trap
>>
>> Any ideas on how to investigate what the problem is would be appreciated. 
>> I'd like to get this to work before moving on to upgrading all libraries to 
>> latest releases.
>>
>> On 8. tra. 2011., at 11:57, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've successfully fixed gnustep-base on MacPorts. At least, it compiles and 
>>> installs on my machine; I did not yet try to compile any code that uses it, 
>>> nor did I try it on... cleaner machines. Before I try that, I will be 
>>> trying to fix other components as well (gnustep-gui, primarily), and I hope 
>>> to get in contact with someone at MacPorts to get this into their port 
>>> index.
>>>
>>> I will also try to update from 1.19 (the current tarball of gnustep-base 
>>> being pulled to compile), as well as update other components. Anything I 
>>> should know about changes from what MacPorts uses to current releases?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ivan Vučica
>>> via phone
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Vučica
>> ivan@vucica.net - http://ivan.vucica.net/
>> Coming soon for iPhone, Zombie Ball - http://j.mp/zbivmail
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ivan Vučica
> ivan@vucica.net - http://ivan.vucica.net/
> Coming soon for iPhone, Zombie Ball - http://j.mp/zbivmail
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss-gnustep mailing list
> Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
>
>



-- 
Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc.
yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
(240)274-9630 (Cell)