[OGo-Developer] noob question on building sope-appserver/samples/HelloForm

[Helge Hess]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 07:46, Chad Leigh wrote:
> gcc        -o HelloForm.woa/./HelloForm ./shared_debug_obj/ 
> HelloForm.o ./shared_debug_obj/Main.o \
>           -L/Volumes/erik/Users/chad/GNUstep/Library/Libraries/   - 
> L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib   -lNGObjWeb -lNGMime -lNGStreams - 
> lNGExtensions         -lNGMime -lNGStreams -lNGExtensions - 
> lEOControl -lXmlRpc -lDOM -lSaxObjC -lEOControl -lDOM -lXmlRpc - 
> lSaxObjC   -framework Foundation       -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lNGObjWeb
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Debug/non-debug builds are somehow mixed up. The GCC above is looking  
for "-lNGObjWeb" while it should look for "-lNGObjWeb_d".
This name rewriting is done by a small tool called  
"which_lib" (contained in the GNUstep tree).

But apparently you did you say "make debug=yes" (shared_debug_obj),  
so I think it should work.
Did you use the gstep-make which comes with SOPE 4.5?

(Notably this special debug renaming is removed in the very latest  
gnustep-make because users frequently mix up debug=yes/no, but I  
didn't try that on OSX yet).


BTW: if you install SOPE into /usr/local, you don't need to source  
GNUstep.sh at dev or runtime.


> (It also appears from my feeble attempts that the xcode projects  
> included for sope are for the earlier versions of xcode -- nothing  
> even remotely builds on this system, but that is OK

Works fine for me with Xcode 2.3.

Hm, actually I just tried and the Xcode projects need a bit of  
tweaking because some files got renamed/added in the PostgreSQL  
adaptor. But besides it seems to compile fine.

> -- I can handle the command line building [even though I have been  
> doing Cocoa programming off and on the last many years I am also an  
> XCode neophyte when it comes to the ins and outs of XCode -- I  
> liked the old WO4.5 / OpenStep Project Builder :-])

You should be able to trigger a GNUstep build from inside Xcode using  
legacy targets? In fact thats what I would recommend if you also want  
to deploy on non-Apple platforms.

BTW: easiest is to use Linux, eg Debian, not Solaris or FreeBSD.  
Comes with prebuild and tested packages.

Greets,
   Helge
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Helge Hess
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