Re: libobjc2-clang

[Riccardo Mottola]

Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> I haven't tried this for other apps, but for SWK+Vespucci the problem is one of 
> initialization order (the same I've seen -- and fixed -- for StepTalk): The 
> __objc_load function is called for libSimpleWebKit*before*  libgnustep-base, 
> which means that all protocol references in libSimpleWebKit are set to nil 
> because the actual protocol classes are not yet known. And the problem here is 
> the SimpleWebKit framework fails to list its depend libraries. This sloppy 
> behavior used to work well on *ix (but not on Windows and not without extra 
> flags on macOS either, although in the latter case gnustep-make adds them for 
> you), but no more with version 2.x of the gnustep runtime. So it's important to 
> add
>    «target»_LIBRARIES_DEPEND_UPON += -lgnustep-base
> to all library and framework projects to make them compatible with clang+ng. In 
> this particular case, adding
>    SimpleWebKit_LIBRARIES_DEPEND_UPON += -lgnustep-base
> to Sources/GNUmakefile and recompiling SimpleWebKit from scratch should get you 
> straight.

that's a little inconvenient, but makes sense. I wonder how much stuff 
needs to be fixed

I added (inside the subproject, not the top-level of the Framework):

LIBRARIES_DEPEND_UPON = $(FND_LIBS) $(OBJC_LIBS)

> Wolfgang
>
> PS Incidentally, I've noticed that you don't actually need to use gold: 
> /usr/pkg/gnu/bin/ld.elf would work as well. Apparently the current NetBSD 
> pkgsrc comes with a recent enough version of binutils where the issue with ld 
> -r has been fixed.

I need it for libobjc2, not other stuff