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TomorrowPlusX Apprentice
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 168 Location: Washington DC, USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 6:31 pm Post subject: Objective C |
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Hi
I recently began to study up on objective c; after many happy years of c++ I've realized that there are some things which objective c might do better, and as such could make my life a little easier (the elusive goal of the archetypical coder/hacker ;)
However, I'm not 100% certain how to go about getting an objective c developer/runtime environment on my machine.
First, I'm using gcc 2.95 and I suspect it doesn't have objective c support at all. Does this mean I have to upgrade to gcc 3.x?
Second, the objective c runtime (sys-devel/objc-<package>) is listed as masked when I do an emerge -s on "objc" (I could be a little wrong, I'm at work, on a win2k box). But I can't find those packages in my package.mask.
So -- anybody have any suggestions? Are there USE vars which will promote objective c gcc support and so on? |
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Jesse Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 148
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TomorrowPlusX Apprentice
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 168 Location: Washington DC, USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject: Yes, but... |
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Actually, I've already read most of this via the info pages -- though admittedly, I just picked up a bit I hadn't before, as most of my previous info page traversals have been to look up obscure linking issues and whatnot.
My concern is that gcc *should* be built with objective c automatically, and the headers and runtime should just be there, but it doesn't seem to have been, since I'm missing /usr/include/objc -- so even if gcc knows how to compile an objective c .m file, it won't link it.
A quick "locate objc" reveals that I don't have the runtime or headers. So it's moot.
Does anybody know how to solve this? I'm not particularly excited by the idea of manually installing gcc, though I will if I have to. |
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