Re: Empty window in GitUp port

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Ethan,

Ethan C wrote:
>        I have encountered a rather hairy issue, which I believe most 
> likely lies in gnustep-gui but in fact could lie anywhere in the 
> dozens of dependencies my project has. I am currently porting the 
> macOS Git client GitUp <https://github.com/git-up/GitUp> to GNUstep on 
> Clang on Linux, and the examples for using the underlying Git library 
> called GitUpKit are failing to work properly. The example GitDiff 
> launches and allows you to select a repository to view. However, it 
> immediately closes. When I modify -[AppDelegate 
> applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed:] to return NO, then 
> it displays an empty window. The same happens with GitDown. Meanwhile, 
> the example GitY uses a hacky way to allow selecting repositories with 
> the file picker (which I think is unnecessary), and due to its hacky 
> nature it doesn't work on GNUstep. I might look into that more, but 
> the issue of the empty window is very perplexing. I have a build guide 
> available at 
> https://github.com/ethanc8/GitUp/blob/gnustep/GitUpKit/DebianBuildGuide.md, 
> and a more detailed explanation of the issue at 
> https://github.com/ethanc8/GitUp/issues/1. 

your project is complex so daemons may lurk everywhere. I have not yet 
tried it, since I don't have its dependencies at hand.

I had a look at this makefile:

https://github.com/ethanc8/GitUp/blob/gnustep/GitUp/GNUmakefile

and noticed that it does not link against GitUpKit, this is at least 
suspicious.


furthermore I watched the video in your issue and I see you spit out a 
lot of signature issues, I think ther eis a mismatch in versions in your 
libraries or some other runtime issue I don't know. Often it is 
harmless, but sometimes not.
I would start sorting that out and see if it helps and if it uncivers 
other errors that can be looked at.

Riccardo


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