Re: Framework support in makefiles

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

This was debated some time ago...

On 2003-07-03 14:09:35 +0200 Nicola Pero <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I cleanly link to a framework with gnustep-make? Currently I am using
> > ADDITIONAL_*_LIBS = -lSomething. Why I am linking to a 'library' if I want to 
> > link to a 'framework'? (Yes, I know that a framework is in fact a library and 
> > there is a link to that library from Libraries directory).
>
> Ok.  I see your point.  Maybe we could add support for a syntactic sugar
> expression "-framework XXX"  which would simply automatically be rewritten
> as "-lXXX" by which_lib if not running on Apple.

this 'sugar' would be nice. however, i do not think it is 'syntactic sugar' 
even if it is implemented as a wrapper around libs.
<snip>

> I suppose something like
> ADDITIONAL_TOOL_LIBS += -lFirstFramework
>
> ADDITIONAL_INCLUDE_DIRS += -I../Frameworks/FirstFramework/derived_src
>
> ADDITIONAL_LIB_DIRS += 
> -L../Frameworks/FirstFramework/FirstFramework.framework/Versions/Current/$(GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR)
>
> should make it.

This is not very nice if you have to link with more frameworks.

Would it be possible to add something like:

BUILD_FRAMEWORKS = -fFirstFramework
BUILD_FRAMEWORS_DIR = ../Frameworks/


> It could be made easier I suppose.

Yes :-)

GNUstep framework support is more pain than pleasure, at this time :-( I think 
that libraries should be deprecated in the favour of frameworks, so users can 
do more testing of framework support.

Thanks for any simplification,

Stefan
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