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

[Thomas Davie]

On 21 Jun 2010, at 22:37, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 21 Jun 2010, at 19:37, Thomas Davie wrote:
> 
>> On 21 Jun 2010, at 18:21, David Chisnall wrote:
>> 
>> 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 :)
> 
> Please do not follow this advice.  The blocks runtime provided by compiler-rt 
> is incompatible with Objective-C.  The hooks it provides are highly specific 
> to the NeXT runtime, and so sending a message to a block will cause a crash 
> (as will storing blocks in collections, using them with any of the 
> higher-order messaging in EtoileFoundation, and so on).  This is why GNUstep 
> provides its own.

Ah bum, thanks for the heads up. :(

Any idea how I get a runtime that does support Objective-C blocks?

Thanks

Tom Davie