working with obj-c under freebsd!

Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh at kathe.in
Mon Jan 5 18:48:38 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:11:34AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:29:50PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 09:38:24PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > > i had asked this question before and was advised to install
> > > the gnustep framework before trying out obj-c development
> > > under freebsd.
> > > 
> > > finally got the whole thing installed and tried to compile
> > > the following simple objective-c program.
> > > 
> > > #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
> > > 
> > > int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
> > > {
> > > 	@autoreleasepool {
> > > 		NSLog (@"Programming is fun!");
> > > 	}
> > > 	return 0;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > the compiler options used were as below;
> > > clang -fobjc-arc main.m -o prog1
> > > 
> > > the compiler threw up the following error;
> > > main.m:3:9: fatal error: 'Foundation/Foundation.h' file not found
> > > #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
> > >         ^
> > > 1 error generated.
> > > 
> > > what can i do to get the above resolved?
> > 
> > i found the location of that file to be at;
> > /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Headers/Foundation/Foundation.h
> > 
> > should i be pointing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to that point too?
> > don't know if that would work, gnustep and obj-c do have their own
> > way of setting things up and getting things done. :)
> 
> okay, got it to compile and work, find below contents of GNUmakefile;
> GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
> TOOL_NAME = mainapp
> mainapp_OBJC_FILES = main.m
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make
> 
> put it in the same directory as main.m and just issue gmake.
> remember to edit config.make found at;
> /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/
> to reflect the actual location of clang tools, i.e. /usr/bin/

also remember to set the environment variable GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_TOOLS to
point to /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools

~mayuresh



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