Re: HelpViewer 0.3 : error while linking [RESOLVED]

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Riccardo,

I realize that I kept this thread about Cynthiune, but the title were
about 'HelpViewer' and this could be confusing for people who might
read the list to search help about this.
So I close this thread, because I was finally able to build HelpViewer
0.3 with clang 7 today. ;-)

P.S. : I will go on about Cynthiune with the appropriate previous
thread : "Building Cynthiune 0.9.5 : linker error (ld.gold)"

Cheers,
Patrick

--
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA
On 2020-06-29 23:26:16 +0200 Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo...@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> thanks for your interest in GAP application, first thing.
> I am revived my Raspberry PI 1 to "jessie" (still unsure if I can
> update it
> further, but i had to reinstall, the past attempt to update it
> bricked it).
> Then I also have RPI3 and RPI4 to test with GNUstep. You just gave me
> the
> impulse to buy another one and keep it as light computer at my
> parents! Seems
> to work fine, but e.g. I noticed that for some reason GNUMail is not
> 100%
> reliable like on x86, needs to be tested further.
>
>
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
>> So maybe that particular app which is not useful for everyone (I am
>> not a
>> member of salesforce.com)
>> should not be a part of the 'gap' ?
>
> Why shouldn't it? GAP contains many apps, you are not forced an
> "install
> everything" approach.
> Also, a beginner should be best served by packages - if available.
>
>
>> I think a good approach for the beginners should allow a simple make
>> at the
>> root of the gap tree to discover
>> the basic apps.
>> But If some app like Databasin is blocking the whole making process,
>> this
>> root GNUmakefile in the top of the gap tree
>> becomes useless, and somebody guessing how to make the apps might
>> find by
>> hand what bundle to make first,
>> and son on.
>> Also, like Patryck dit it for the GNUstep core project, it would be
>> very
>> useful to supply a script to get first all the relative dependencies.
>
> You are not forced to build & install everything. Personally I don't
> use
> those top-level makefiles either, I install and upgrade the specific
> apps.
>
>> Have seen that... I don't know, all this linker stuff is a mess. I
>> did try
>>> with gcc and its runtime and it worked some weeks ago. So many
>>> variants,
>>> sorry.
>> Well, I wanted to use clang because many advices at the list said it
>> would
>> be better to learn Objectice-C and create new apps with that modern
>> compiler.
>> But I feel that with my RPI 32 bit, and the tests you did, I should
>> revert
>> to the 'old' GCC and make it all again,
>
> you really should be able to use both and both should work in my
> opinion and
> then decide your won taste what to use.
> If only Cythiune is giving you erros, maybe somebody has a hint on
> how to fix
> linking!
>
>
>
>
>>> (do you have alsa, libasound and it's dev libraries installed?
>>> otherwise
>>> try
>>> some other backend
>> yes. I did install those ALSA dependencies.
>
>> )
>
> if somebody can reproduce... I never compiled cynthiune on raspberry,
> since I
> don't have sound attached to it, but I could try.
>
> Riccardo
>