FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Runtime loader errors when trying to test JavaScriptCore

[Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>]

Ryan Leavengood wrote (2007-08-18, 04:53:11 [+0200]):
> Well I figured out the problem. I used a BeOS version of the ICU
> shared libraries (which I built a  while ago) to build JavaScriptCore
> and the testkjs test app. The building worked fine, but when I try to
> run testkjs in Haiku with those libraries the runtime loader tries to
> load libstdc++.r4.so since the ICU libraries reference it.
> 
> Now I assume this might normally work fine on a Haiku built with GCC
> 2.95, but I'm building with GCC 4.x.
>
> So I may try building JavaScriptCore with GCC 2.95, since I believe
> some other people have gotten that working. But I don't know if the
> rest of WebKit will work with that. Luckily their coding style seems
> similar to ours so I don't think they use really advanced C++
> techniques that GCC 2.95 can't handle. But I guess I'll see.

It could be where the real problems start... but having the WebKit browser 
available for a 2.95.3 build of Haiku would rock, since that is what we 
initially want to offer. Well, I guess, I should not reflect on that too 
much right now. :-)

> By the way, it is the case that if I build Haiku with GCC 2.95 those
> BeOS-built ICU shared libraries will work, right? I would like to be
> sure before I spend time working on that...

I would think so, yes.

Best regards,
-Stephan