Re: gnustep-base on msys/mingw: make always regenerates

[Marcel Weiher]

On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:50  Uhr, Adam Fedor wrote:

> Marcel Weiher wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> > I have now found the instructions for building gnustep with 
> > MSYS+MinGW, and things are working much better than before with 
> > cygwin and so forht (Duh!).  However, there still are some minor 
> > wrinkles to get out, but nothing really problematic.  What *is* 
> > problematic is that make always restarts the build from scratch.  Not 
> > too pleasant on Virtual PC...
> > Any ideas what could be causing the build to re-start from scratch 
> > each time, even if the previus make failed in the final link phase?  
> > One thing I noticed is that it removes and re-copies the headers each 
> > time.  Are there dependencies on the build-locations of the headers?
>
> re-copying the headers is a dumb hack. Perhaps this should be 
> improved. It shouldn't re-compile everything though. Perhaps just 10 
> or 20 files.
>
> In any case, you could avoid this by compiling from a subdirectory:
>
> cd Source
> make

Yes, that helped a bit, thanks.  However, for those link-errors, I 
still had to go back to the top-level, resulting in (almost?) complete 
rebuilds.

Anyway, I have now successfull compiled the gnustep-base, as well as 
(sort of) successfully compiled my MPWFoundation (will have to revisit 
a couple of places, for example the pthread-based stuff in MPWObject).  
Yeah!  With NSInvocation now present, even HOM should work.

I will report on details later, but right now the problem is that 
although I can compile+link a small test-program, (pretty much 
hello-world.m with one class reference), this doesn't run.  It exits 
with an NSInternalInconsistencyException, reason "Runtime incorrectly 
configured to pass argframes".  The nice thing is that it at least 
behaves identically from a plain DOS prompt, so that was good to see ;-)

There were some problems installing the ffcall library, so my working 
guess is that it's related to that.  For example, gnustep-base's 
autoconf wouldn't autodetect ffcall no matter where I put libs + 
headers (or at least so it seemed) so I had to specify this on the 
configure command line.

I am also seeing problems with paths that appear similar to what 
S.J.Chun reported.

Big thanks for all the help so far,

Marcel

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