From 389c9300979be3a79b02d0dd986e006f76bce1c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Starks-Browning Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:26:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New entry "Where is Objective C?" --- winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo index 76bf56fa7..91e8d37da 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-programming.texinfo @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ Cygwin does not provide glibc. It uses newlib instead, which provides much (but not all) of the same functionality. Porting glibc to Cygwin would be difficult. +@subsection Where is Objective C? + +Objective C is not distributed with the Cygwin version of gcc, and there +are no plans to do so. The gcc package maintainer had difficulty +building it, and once built there were problems using it. It appears +that there is only minimual support for the Objective C front-end in the +main GCC distribution, anyway. + @subsection Why is make behaving badly? First of all, if you are using @samp{make -j[N]}, then stop. It doesn't