It's difficult to compile GNUstep on an OSX machine, as a lot of the dependancies will pull in Apple's libobjc and that conflicts with the GCC libobjc. Here's a little more information, but I don't really have a step-by-step guide yet for it:
-------- 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. On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Sandell, Goran H. (ARC-PX)[Universities Space Research Association (USRA)] wrote: > <logs.tar.gz>_______________________________________________ > Bug-gnustep mailing list > Bug-gnustep@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list Bug-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep