Can't link Sparkle.Framework

[Heiner]

I tried to link to my ASOC-app Sparkle in the same way as did in ASS and got the message:

ld: this linkage unit requires GC. It cannot link against Retain/Release dylib: /Users/myname/Desktop/Schulnoten ASOC/Schulnoten 2.2/Sparkle.framework/Sparkle
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Command /Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 failed with exit code 1

It doesn’t make sense to me.

• Is Sparkle compatible with ASOC ?
• Did I make wrong settings ?

Heiner

[Shane_Stanley]

It sounds like it wants garbage collection, which is on by default in ASObjC. You can turn it off, but then you have to add all the retain/release stuff to your code.

You might start by asking the author if he has any plans for a GC version.

[StefanK]

@Shane Stanley

You might start by asking the author if he has any plans for a GC version.

The Sparkle package includes a GC version

[Heiner]

Indeed, I’ve found it in the Sparkle folder, implemented it and it works!

(I didn’t know before what a GC is and that an ASOC app needs a GC-version. It is not my intend to throw my app into the trash.)

Thanks for help.

Heiner

[Heiner]

Sorry, I’m back again.
This works only in Debug modus, in Release modus it hangs with following message:

Running.
objc[732]: ‘/Users/myname/Desktop/Schulnoten ASOC/Schulnoten 2.2/build/Release/Schulnoten 2.2.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/A/Sparkle’ was not compiled with -fobjc-gc or -fobjc-gc-only, but the application requires GC
objc[732]: *** GC capability of application and some libraries did not match
Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION”.
sharedlibrary apply-load-rules all

I have found the reason.
I added the blue cube twice, one in MainMenu.xib (for a menu item) and one in MyDocument.xib (for a preference panel). That does not have it gladly. I decided for the menu item.