Re: Building gnustep on Mac OS X

[Graham J Lee]

On 29 Sep 2007, at 22:28, Daniel Mark wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> I am trying to build gnustep on Darwin x86, and get the following  
> error:
>
> checking if ffcall trampolines work... no
> none
>
> You have ffcall, but it does not work properly. Most likely because
> your're system's security policy is blocking some parts of ffcall
> we recommend installing libffi instead.
> GNUstep requires ffcall or libffi and proper libobjc hooks to do
> invocations and DO.
> (This does not apply on apple-apple-apple systems where DO is
> not compatible with other GNUstep systems.)
>
>
> Since I run an apple-apple-apple system, I am clueless what to do?
> Anyone got a hint?

If you intend to use apple-apple-apple (as in, use gnustep-make and/ 
or gnustep-base extensions with Cocoa) then configure using the -- 
with-library-combo=apple-apple-apple option.  If you intend to use  
gnu-gnu-gnu (as in, use gnustep-gui on X11 and gnustep-base  
completely, without linking to Cocoa) then you need to supply your  
own GCC, and libffi usually gets built as part of the GCC distribution.

Cheers,
Graham.