Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:36:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.3.1: Objective-C not installed. Message-ID: <20010519103623.B7115@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010518202528.B11048@redhat.com> <6363-Sat19May2001085745+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <6363-Sat19May2001085745+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:57:44AM +0100 On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:57:44AM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Friday 18 May 01, Christopher Faylor writes: >> >What can I do to get Objective-C for my installation of Cygwin? >> >> You have to build one yourself. I don't distribute it with gcc 2.95.3 and >> have no plans on doing so. > >I don't know what the Objective-C compiler is or why people think it >should be part of Cygwin's gcc-2.95, but I've seen this question come >up a few times recently. Should I add it to the FAQ? Yes, please. The basic reason it is not included is that I had problems building it at one point. I also think that when it was built there were problems with it. Objective C is just barely supported in the main distribution, AFAICT. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple