[SOLVED] Re: Further problems trying to build GNUstep with blocks/properties support

[Thomas Davie]

On 21 Jun 2010, at 18:21, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 21 Jun 2010, at 18:07, Thomas Davie wrote:
> 
>> You seemed to indicate that NSConcreteGlobalBlock and NSConcreteStackBlock 
>> should be hiding away in libgnustep-base, but that doesn't seem to be the 
>> case:
>> address@hidden:~/Documents/BattleDungeon$ nm 
>> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so | grep 
>> "Concrete.*Block"
>>                w _NSConcreteStackBlock
>> 
>> Any help getting over this last hurdle would be much appreciated.
> 
> These symbols are provided by the ObjectiveC2 framework.  Looking at the 
> GNUmakefile for that subproject, it seems that the NSBlocks.m file, which 
> defines this symbol, was not being built.
> 
> I've hopefully fixed that now.  There may be other issues with 
> ObjectiveC2.framework - Richard is maintaining it now, I'm only occasionally 
> back-porting stuff to it from libobjc2 when I remember.  

Hi David and everyone,

Just to let you all know, I figured out something that works:

1) install compiler-rt
2) add -lBlocksRuntime to the LDFLAGS.

Not sure if this is the standard solution, but it got me up and running :)

Bob