Re: GNUmakefile in gui/Model

[Adam Fedor]

Stephen Brandon wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Thanks for making the change to GNUmakefile in gui/Model,
> but unfortunately something is still not right. I don't know
> why this has happened -- when I tested it the other day the
> change you made seemed to work.
>
> In any case, what is happening on Win32/mingw/cygwin is that
> the dlltool also needs the -lobjc flag.
>
> The way I have patched this is to append  $(OBJC_LIBS) to
> libgmodel_LIBRARIES_DEPEND_UPON as follows. This rings alarm
> bells to me though... shouldn't all libraries that are
> required for linking be held together somewhere and appended
> to the DLL_TOOL string in the system makefiles rather than
> in an individual makefile like this?


You're right. -lobjc should be in there. I don't know why it would have 
worked before. In general the only library you can assume is needed is 
-lobjc, so perhaps that could be put in the library.make makefile, but 
anything else would have to be added by the developer.




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