Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of BuildFFIGEN

Timestamp:

Dec 5, 2010, 4:20:03 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

gb

Comment:

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BuildFFIGEN

@@ -42 +42 @@
 
 {{{
+# Note that the svn directory is misnamed; this is actually based on Apple GCC 5464 (not 6465).
 shell> svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/ffigen4/branches/ffigen-apple-gcc-6465/ffigen4
 }}}
@@ -56 +57 @@
 3. Install the installation archive as above.
 
+== (Experimental) ObjC blocks support ==
+This is a branch based on Apple GCC-5646, which includes support for blocks in ObjC.  'populate.sh' scripts should add the -fblocks option to CFLAGS in order to enable that support.
+
+1. Check out the Apple-specific svn branch:
+
+{{{
+shell> svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/ffigen4/branches/ffigen-apple-gcc-5646/ffigen4
+}}}
+
+Note that after svn announces that several small files have been checked out, there may be a substantial delay while it checks out the gcc source archive.  Be sure to wait (however long you'd wait for a ~40MB file to download) for the checkout to complete.
+
+2.  Build and install the installation archive:
+
+As above.
+
 == Win64 status ==