Re: Objective-C programming

[Adam Fedor]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:

> As far as I can tell, there isn't a ffi library on NetBSD, at least I 
> don't see on in /usr/pkgsrc.  Does it come as part of gnustep-base ?

I think there might be a bug in ffcall for NetBSD/Sparc, but I'll have 
to look around to remember that. I don't think ffi is an  option, but 
it's possible - it comes with gcc, so you would have to look to see if 
there is, say, a gcc-libffi package or perhaps compile from source (if 
it works on your OS).
> Is my understanding correct ?  Is this what I want ?  Or should I just
> install gnustep-base and gcc-objc and leave it at that (along with
> gnustep-make) ?
>
> Based on what folks have said here, I believe that as long as I have
> gcc (with objc support), gnustep-make, and gnustep-base, I should be
> just fine, yes ?
yes. gcc with objc comes with the libobjc library, which has the 
Objective-C runtime (GNU). GNUstep-base has some compatibility 
functions that allow you to use the same runtime functions on both NeXT 
and GNU runtimes, but I don't think you need to worry about that.