Re: Help with building requested

[René Berber]

On 2002-09-09 09:45:05 +0000 Blacktiger <blktiger@ku.edu> wrote:

> When trying to build gnustep-base-1.4.1 I get the following errors:
> dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1
> make[2]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/cygwin/gnu-gnu-gnu/gnustep-base.dll] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [libgnustep-base.all.library.variables] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/Blacktiger/gnustep/gnustep-base-1.4.1/Source'
> make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> 
> If I continue anyway and try to build gnustep-gui-0.8.0 I get this:
> make[2]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/cygwin/gnu-gnu-gnu/Functions.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [libgnustep-gui.all.library.variables] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Blacktiger/gnustep/gnustep-gui-0.8.0/Source'
> make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> 
> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I am using the latest version of 
> cygwin to do this, and the latest version of the gcc compiler.

Unless something changed recently, GNUstep doesn't compile with Cygwin, not 
even if you have built a newer gcc with ObjectiveC.  The error you run into are 
exactly what you describe, dlltool is called with missing parameters, then, 
after using dlltool manually to create the library dllwraper complains with 
something similar.

There is some guide that describes how to build GNUstep with MinGW and how to 
cross-compile with Cygwin (it's in the README.* files inside the Documentation 
of gnustep-make) but I haven't tried.

Regards.
-- 
René Berber