Re: libobjc

[Eric Heintzmann]

On 2004-07-03 15:06:28 +0200 Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> >         Hi,
> >
> > Just a little question:
> >
> > Is it normal that gnustep-back requires libobjc and base (and gui) 
> > doesn't 
> > need libobjc ?
>
> No - everything needs libobjc.  Actually, gnustep-make too probably 
> should 
> depend on libobjc, since gnustep-make's ./configure detects the 
> threading 
> flags used by libobjc.
In fact, the real question was :
is it  normal that libgnustep-base.so.1.9.2 and gnustep-gui.so.0.9.3 
don't requires libobjc ?

When building -base (with make):

> gcc  -shared -Wl,-soname,libgnustep-base.so.1         -o 
> ./shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so.1.9.2 shared_obj/GSCompatibility.o 
> shared_obj/GSLocale.o shared_obj/preface.o shared_obj/mframe.o 
> shared_obj/callframe.o shared_obj/GSArray.o 
> shared_obj/GSAttributedString.o 
> shared_obj/GSCountedSet.o shared_obj/GSDictionary.o 
> shared_obj/GSFileHandle.o 
> shared_obj/GSFormat.o shared_obj/GSFTPURLHandle.o 
> shared_obj/GSHTTPURLHandle.o shared_obj/GSSet.o shared_obj/GSString.o 
> shared_obj/GSValue.o shared_obj/NSAttributedString.o 
> shared_obj/NSArchiver.o 
> shared_obj/NSArray.o shared_obj/NSAssertionHandler.o 
> shared_obj/NSAutoreleasePool.o shared_obj/NSBitmapCharSet.o 
> shared_obj/NSBundle.o shared_obj/NSCalendarDate.o 
> shared_obj/NSCallBacks.o 
> shared_obj/NSCharacterSet.o shared_obj/NSClassDescription.o 
> shared_obj/NSCoder.o shared_obj/NSCopyObject.o 
> shared_obj/NSCountedSet.o 
> shared_obj/NSConnection.o shared_obj/NSData.o shared_obj/NSDate.o 
> shared_obj/NSDateFormatter.o shared_obj/NSDebug.o 
> shared_obj/NSDecimal.o 
> shared_obj/NSDecimalNumber.o shared_obj/NSDictionary.o 
> shared_obj/NSDistantObject.o shared_obj/NSDistributedLock.o 
> shared_obj/NSDistributedNotificationCenter.o 
> shared_obj/NSEnumerator.o 
> shared_obj/NSError.o shared_obj/NSException.o 
> shared_obj/NSFileHandle.o 
> shared_obj/NSFileManager.o shared_obj/NSFormatter.o 
> shared_obj/NSGeometry.o 
> shared_obj/NSHashTable.o shared_obj/NSHost.o shared_obj/NSIndexSet.o 
> shared_obj/NSInvocation.o shared_obj/NSKeyedArchiver.o 
> shared_obj/NSKeyedUnarchiver.o shared_obj/NSKeyValueCoding.o 
> shared_obj/NSLock.o shared_obj/NSLog.o shared_obj/NSMapTable.o 
> shared_obj/NSMethodSignature.o shared_obj/NSNotification.o 
> shared_obj/NSNotificationCenter.o shared_obj/NSNotificationQueue.o 
> shared_obj/NSNull.o shared_obj/NSNumber.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumberFormatter.o 
> shared_obj/NSObjCRuntime.o shared_obj/NSObject.o shared_obj/NSPage.o 
> shared_obj/NSPipe.o shared_obj/NSPort.o shared_obj/NSPortCoder.o 
> shared_obj/NSPortMessage.o shared_obj/NSPortNameServer.o 
> shared_obj/NSProcessInfo.o shared_obj/NSPropertyList.o 
> shared_obj/NSProtocolChecker.o shared_obj/NSProxy.o 
> shared_obj/NSRange.o 
> shared_obj/NSRunLoop.o shared_obj/NSScanner.o 
> shared_obj/NSSerializer.o 
> shared_obj/NSSet.o shared_obj/NSSocketPort.o 
> shared_obj/NSSocketPortNameServer.o shared_obj/NSString.o 
> shared_obj/NSTask.o 
> shared_obj/NSThread.o shared_obj/NSTimer.o shared_obj/NSTimeZone.o 
> shared_obj/NSUnarchiver.o shared_obj/NSUndoManager.o 
> shared_obj/NSURL.o 
> shared_obj/NSURLHandle.o shared_obj/NSUser.o 
> shared_obj/NSUserDefaults.o 
> shared_obj/NSValue.o shared_obj/NSZone.o shared_obj/externs.o 
> shared_obj/objc-load.o shared_obj/NSMessagePort.o 
> shared_obj/NSMessagePortNameServer.o shared_obj/GSFFCallInvocation.o 
> shared_obj/GSValue0.o shared_obj/GSValue1.o shared_obj/GSValue2.o 
> shared_obj/GSValue3.o shared_obj/GSValue4.o shared_obj/GSValue5.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber0.o shared_obj/NSNumber1.o shared_obj/NSNumber2.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber3.o shared_obj/NSNumber4.o shared_obj/NSNumber5.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber6.o shared_obj/NSNumber7.o shared_obj/NSNumber8.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber9.o shared_obj/NSNumber10.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber11.o 
> shared_obj/NSNumber12.o Additions/shared_obj/subproject.o  
> -L./shared_obj 
> -L/home/eric/GNUstep/Library/Libraries 
> -L/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries 
> -L/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Network/Library/Libraries 
> -L/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries -ldl -lz -lcallback 
> -lavcall 
> -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lxslt -lgmp  ; (cd ./shared_obj; rm -f 
> libgnustep-base.so; if [ "libgnustep-base.so.1" != 
> "libgnustep-base.so.1.9.2" 
> ]; then rm -f libgnustep-base.so.1; ln -s libgnustep-base.so.1.9.2 
> libgnustep-base.so.1; fi; ln -s libgnustep-base.so.1 
> libgnustep-base.so; )

There is no -lobjc flag ...

(But when building tools, there are -lobjc flags)

        Eric