Hmmm ...
Other than the fact that Cygnus/Redhat has been commenting the ObjC
dependencies out of (their versions of) the production GNU makefiles
since I can remember (cygwin 1.6) - there really are no problems with
building or using it.
I think Cygnus/Redhat just doesn't see enough of a "market" to bother
keeping it bundled as GNU has in the main distribution for the last
decade or so. A talented and willing ObjC guru has not stepped forward to
contribute the bindings, for proper demangling and such, to cygwin
development tools like gdb. Hence, Cygnus/Redhat has finally completely
swept it out of their distribution. Oh well, that's progress I guess.
ObjC has been "just barely supported" within gcc pretty much since its
inception. Its truly a "programmer's" programming language.
Nonetheless,
As of gcc 2.95.2, I can guarantee - it works just fine on BSD,
linux, Sun/Solaris, NeXT and yes, cygwin-translated win32 as well.
Viva ObjC !!!
bisk.
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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:57:44AM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Friday 18 May 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> >What can I do to get Objective-C for my installation of Cygwin?
>>
>> You have to build one yourself. I don't distribute it with gcc 2.95.3 and
>> have no plans on doing so.
>
>I don't know what the Objective-C compiler is or why people think it
>should be part of Cygwin's gcc-2.95, but I've seen this question come
>up a few times recently. Should I add it to the FAQ?
Yes, please.
The basic reason it is not included is that I had problems building it
at one point. I also think that when it was built there were problems
with it. Objective C is just barely supported in the main distribution,
AFAICT.
cgf
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