Re: Building JIGS

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 28 Apr 2004, at 18:27, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > > > 	I downloaded JIGS from the GNUstep CVS and when I tried to build 
> > > > it I
> > > > got  compile errors 'objc/hash.h' and in a number of other perfectly
> > > > fine, working headers like 'libio.h'. Most of those errors have to 
> > > > do
> > > > with the non-declaration of the type 'size_t'. Does anybody have an
> > > > idea on why that is? I think it might be something related to the
> > > > compilation conditionals in 'stddef.h', but I'm not really sure.
> > >
> > > Interesting - could you provide us with more details ?
> > >
> > > Main questions would be - is the problem generally with compiling 
> > > ObjC
> > > code, or is it specific to JIGS ?  That is, can you compile ObjC code
> > > outside of JIGS ?
> > >
> > > Which machine/os/platform are you working on ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> >         Yes, I can compile ObjcC code. I have built and installed GNUstep
> > core and some extra GNUstep libraries and applications and everything
> > seems fine with them, so I'm guessing the problem is specific to JIGS.
>
> Maybe it's something to do with the Java headers then ?
>
> Which version of Java are you using ?  I'm afraid at the moment it has
> only been tested / is only known to be working with Sun's Java. :-(

If this is a recent MacOS-X ....

IIRC on MacOS-X the headers for java on a standard installation are 
missing from the framework or something and you need to download the 
java developers package from apples website.  Sorry I can't remember 
where exactly ... a web search will probably help.