August 2010
3 posts
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GNUstep, works
Turns out that even if you don’t want to compile with gcc-objc, you need it installed because it’s where the base ObjC headers are. Once that was done, this worked:
[mdxi@fornax test]$ make
This is gnustep-make 2.4.0. Type 'make print-gnustep-make-help' for help.
Making all for tool Hello...
Compiling file hello.m ...
Linking tool Hello ...
Nice! But clang kept complaining of the...
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GNUstep, First try
I’m crazy, so I’d really like to have Objective C as a target for Roundabout. If Perl is my first-implementation and reference language, I’d like to have ObjC as the “speed and power” language.
The first step to making this happen is making ObjC — or more correctly, Cocoa — code compile on Linux with GNUstep. It’s been a really long time since I...
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Work update
After a lot of thought and re-reading old notes, I’ve ironed out the Roundabout “reliable” message protocol. That is, how to handle message delivery in a way that guarantees no data or state loss, even over unreliable links.
I’m probably just reimplementing TCP at a higher level, since the problem is so basic. Regardless, it gives me something to code against, and also to...