Re: GNUstep on win32: compile and link issues

[Helge Hess]

Hi Nicola,

On 2. Mrz 2005, at 01:17 Uhr, Nicola Pero wrote:
> Yes -- I'm working on the building infrastructure for win32! :-)
>
> Tomorrow I'll do another small chunk.

just tried to build libSaxObjC using the Windows installer and the 
latest snapshot of gstep-make. Apparently gstep-make forgets to add 
-lFoundation or -lgstep-base when being on Windows?
---snip---
gcc  -shared -Wl,--out-implib,./shared_obj/libSaxObjC.dll.a        -o 
./shared_obj/SaxObjC.dll shared_obj/SaxAttributeList.o 
shared_obj/SaxAttributes.o shared_obj/SaxDefaultHandler.o 
shared_obj/SaxException.o shared_obj/SaxHandlerBase.o 
shared_obj/SaxLocator.o shared_obj/SaxMethodCallHandler.o 
shared_obj/SaxNamespaceSupport.o shared_obj/SaxObjectDecoder.o 
shared_obj/SaxObjectModel.o shared_obj/SaxXMLFilter.o 
shared_obj/SaxXMLReaderFactory.o  -L././shared_obj 
-L../SaxObjC/./shared_obj -Lc:/GNUstep/Library/Libraries 
-Lc:/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries 
-Lc:/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries -lobjc
---snap---

This gives a lot of linking errors due to Foundation symbols not being 
found.

Another annoying thing is that if the link above fails, the .dll file 
is still created. A subsequent make will claim that everything is 
perfect (because a file exists).
Maybe the makefile needs to check whether the build was OK and 
otherwise explicitly delete the target file (on Windows).

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=12244

Greets,
  Helge
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