Re: [Pyobjc-dev] building on 10.1.5

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On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Steven Majewski wrote:
> Has anyone been able to build pyobjc on 10.1.5 ?

It won't build on 10.1.5 right now.

> Using the default compiler, it always seems to die while
> trying to compile register.m.

Ugh-- shouldn't be doing that!  Definitely a compiler bug.

> I saw some notes on the list about problems with the file being so
> large, so I tried using gcc3 to build ( Is this what's standard on
> 10.2 ? ) -- it compiles register.m without problem but runs into
> a load of errors later on.

The automatically generated files have loads of references to 10.2 
specific variables and API.  This could be fixed.

All of the new-to-10.2 APIs are surrounded by #ifdef blocks and, as 
such, could be conditionally removed.   It would be a matter of:

     - augmenting the generation scripts to deal with this

     - adding the generation scripts to the overall module build process 
[Ronald indicated that there are bugs in the generator scripts, but I 
don't know what they are]

     - passing the header files to be processed by the generators 
through CPP with the appropriated -D flags to cause 10.1 or 10.2 
specific builds [or, simply build the 10.1 binaries on a 10.1 machine].

The last step isn't strictly necessary but might be nice in that it 
would allow 10.1 binaries to be build on a 10.2 machine.

b.bum