Re: Using the libobjc patch

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Graham Lee wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:12 AM, Graham Lee wrote:
> > > So far I've built gnustep-make 1.5.0, sourced 
> > > ~/GNUstep/[...]/GNUstep.sh, built gnustep-objc and installed it into 
> > > my own ~/GNUstep hierarchy.  But now I need to be able to build and 
> > > link an objc program using the new library, to prove its usefulness. 
> > >  This is where I'm stuck.
> > After installing gnustep-objc, you should re-configure and re-build 
> > gnustep-make (and re-source GNUstep.sh). GNUstep Make will pick up on 
> > the fact that you have a new installed version of libobjc and use 
> > that.
> This does work - thanks.  However I'd also like to be able to use the 
> patched libobjc to create "quick 'n' dirty" Objective-C programs; the 
> equivalent of typing `gcc myfile.m -lobjc' where myfile.m is based on 
> plain ol' Object and libobjc.a is a static (and preferably working) 
> object.  Is this possible?
You should be able to do that, if you set the -I and -L flags with gcc:

 -I[...]GNUstep/System/Headers 
-L[...]GNUstep/System/Libraries/sparc/solaris2.7

and have LD_LIBRARY_PATH setup correctly (as it is done by GNUstep.sh).