Re: Problems compiling GNUStep and GWorkspace

[Adam Fedor]

Compiling on Mac OS X is always a moving targt.  Here are some hints from Wolfgang:

Begin forwarded message:

To make this statement more precise, GNUstep *does* work on OS X 10.4 and later, too, but it will not work out of the box with the dependencies built from MacPorts (and I guess from fink either). The problem is not the Apple linker per se, but rather that many of our dependencies nowadays depend directly or indirectly on CoreFoundation on OS X and, unfortunately, CoreFoundation started to depend on Apple's libobjc in 10.4.

To successfully build and run GNUstep on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, you need (at least) to configure aspell with --disable-nls (the nonls variant of aspell should do for MacPorts). Next, you need a freetype configured with --without-old-mac-fonts (unfortunately no help from MacPorts here and the freetype shipped with Mac OS X 10.5 will not work either). Apart from that, configure GNUstep-base with --disable-tls and GNUstep-back with --disable-glx and use either the libart (the default) or xlib backend. Eventually, I may have forgotten some other libraries in this list, but you will notice that when looking at the crash report being produced in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter. Look for a line containing /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib.

Hope this helps
Wolfgang

On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:22 AM, David Robinson wrote:

Hi All

 

I am new to this and am having some problems installing GNUStep and GWorkspace on OSX 10.6.7 with X11. Also

having problems with Octave though I will leave that for later.

 

I have wmaker running and that is fine, did that through MacPorts. 

 

I have managed to install everything except gnustep-base. And when I try to use the gnustep-startup it also

fails on gnustep-base.

 

The program has outputted a log file, though due to my lack of experience I am unsure how to proceed.

 

I have attached the log as requested. 

 

Any help with this would be very gratefully received.

 

Many Thanks in advance

 

David 

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