Re: GCC Framework support in Linux (fwd)

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Pershaps we should begin with explicitly answering few, even some of 
> them with obvious answers, questions:
>
> 1. What are the differences between GNUstep and Applie framework 
> structure?
> 2. How to find a binary or headers in a framework?
> 3. What are the differences for standard framework locations in 
> GNUstep and Apple?
> 4. How to specify frameworks and their locations? (-f -F)
> 5. How to tell gcc which GNUstep combo to use for searching 
> executable? (if it is necessary at all)
> 6. ...

I think it is probably a good start to answer these questions.

1. I don't think there are any differences (see below, though), but we 
might want to think about how gcc users in general would want to use 
frameworks. Assuming someone would want to group files and headers 
together, would they want the main directory to have a .framework 
extension? Could that be configurable? How about the Headers directory? 
Isn't it more normal to have a "include" directory?

2. I don't think binaries are covered in the patch that was submitted. 
This is also more difficult because it involves interaction and/or 
modification with the linker as well.

3. GNUstep doesn't have standard framework locations (only default 
locations), and I can't see that the general gcc community would ever 
agree on a standard framework location. I think we'll always have to 
use the -F flags to add these...

5. This could be a problem. I think it would be very hard to deal with 
the library-combo/cpu/os include structure, now that we have extended 
this to Headers as well. Perhaps we need to rethink that part ourselves.