Re: [Swig-devel] GSoC Objective C:GNUstep Compilation on linux

[Leif M. <lei...@gm...>]

2012/3/28 Ashish Sharma <ash...@gm...>:
> Leif, Swati,
>
> GSoC coding period starts from May 21. Before it, both of you are not
> expected to "code" the changes you are willing to see in the Objective C
> module. We are expecting from you to "identify" the problems, and "suggest"
> solutions. Both of you have demonstrated enough of competency for your
> applications to be considered. I will suggest you focus more on your
> application then getting involved in a discussion.
>
> Regarding the changes, I will check it and comment on it. But, I believe the
> flags were needed - I had a flag earlier for suppressing the error with
> NXConstantString with GNUstep but along with it we needed certain DFLAGS to
> be passed to GNUstep. `gnustep-config --objc-flags` seem to handle those
> very well. You could also have a look at using 'GNUMakefiles for compiling
> Objective-C code' - It will make sure the code compiles on all of the
> supported GNUstep platforms.
I also first thought about using --objc-flags but then I discovered
that lib and tool makefiles are available on Mac OS and GNUStep. So
that's exactly what I'm working on ;-)
>
> --
> Ashish
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Swati Sharma <ita...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Leif Middelschulte
>> <lei...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2012/3/27 Swati Sharma <ita...@gm...>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hi Swati,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the patch enclosing  the changes which I have made in the
>>>> Objective C module files (configuration.in  and example makefile) in order
>>>> to compile the Objective C examples using GNUstep.
>>>> This works perfectly on Linux and should work on windows as well (have
>>>> to cross check it on windows - my windows machine has     broken GNUstep
>>>> dependencies which I need to fix first).
>>>
>>> I just returned home, but as I told you yesterday, I'll provide a proper
>>> fix hopefully by tomorrow. This is just keeping the hacks alive.
>>
>>
>> What is "hackish" in this change? The change incorporates the default
>> objective flags which should be passed to GNUstep to compile the code. They
>> were missing earlier. It could certainly be made better. But saying it's a
>> hack is demeaning in nature.
Swati,

When I said "don't touch Makefiles stuff", I did, because I think that
you're probably a good coder. So I didn't want you to slow yourself
out by working with the build system. Also, seeing your approaches
towards fixing the linking issues, I figured that you might not be too
familiar with the available soutions, rendering your work less
efficient than when you're coding :-)
This is not about you or me, but the "profit" of the project :-)
If there was anybody else around who had time and more experience with
"what's available" than me, I'd happily leave autotools and Makefiles
to him/her. Messing around with those doesn't help any user in
reality.

Bottom line: All I wanted to say is: "Go for the code, Swati! Don't
bother the buildsystem :-)"
I'm really happy that you're putting so much effort into this, just
wanted to make sure that we both don't waste our time by working on
the exact same things.
>>
>>
>> - Swati
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Leif