Re: Gorm not linking on Win32

[Gregory John Casamento]

Kevin,

--- Kevin Kerle <kkerle@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 
>   When I try to link the latest CVS version of Gorm I am getting the
> following errors:
> 
> Making all for palette 0Menus...
>  Linking palette 0Menus ...
> ./shared_obj/GormMenuEditor.o(.text+0x1c2f):GormMenuEditor.m: undefined
> reference to `findAllSubmenus'
> ./shared_obj/GormMenuInspectors.o(.data+0x6dc):GormMenuInspectors.m:
> undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_IBInspector'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0x64d):main.m: undefined reference to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0xa5e):main.m: undefined reference to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0xe42):main.m: undefined reference to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0x11cc):main.m: undefined reference to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0x14fc):main.m: undefined reference to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType'
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.text+0x1849):main.m: more undefined references to
> `_imp__IBMenuPboardType' follow
> ./shared_obj/main.o(.data+0xa0c):main.m: undefined reference to
> `__objc_class_name_IBPalette'

This is a known issue on Windows.

>   These errors seem very similar to the ones I was getting trying to link
> Renaissance before Nicola's latest makefile changes to fix linking on Win32
> under MinGW.  Is anyone working on fixing this for Gorm?  Adam thought that
> somebody was, but wasn't sure.

I'm the maintainer of Gorm, so I'm working on it.
 
>   I am generating the export list in libGorm.def myself, since I know that
> dlltool doesn't do this correctly on Windows, so I think this is really
> makefile problem.   If anyone out there is using Gorm on Win32, I'd be glad
> to hear from them...

I don't think anyone has yet.   A lot of apps currently have this issue.

> Thanks,
> Kevin 

Later, GJC

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Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A Maryland Corporation)
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.