Compiling App Wrappers with GNUStep

Question

I am following the directions verbatim as on the GNUStep website. Here's my make file.

include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

APP_NAME = FirstApp

FirstApp_OBJC_FILES = main.m \
MyController.m

FirstApp_MAIN_MODEL_FILE = FirstApp.gorm

FirstApp_RESOURCE_FILES = FirstApp.gorm

include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/application.make

Here are the contents of the directory (noted that in the tutorial there is no mention of creating a main.m file. I assumed this was autogenerated somehow. If this is an omission on the tutorial writers part please let me know. Also what should the main.m file contain.

FirstApp.gorm  GNUmakefile  MyController.h  MyController.m  MyController.m~

I compiled by switching to the directory and running make and this is the output I recieved.

This is gnustep-make 2.6.1. Type 'make print-gnustep-make-help' for help.
Making all for app FirstApp...
 Creating FirstApp.app/....
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `obj/FirstApp.obj/main.m.o', needed by `FirstApp.app/./FirstApp'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [internal-app-run-compile-submake] Error 2
make[1]: *** [FirstApp.all.app.variables] Error 2
make: *** [internal-all] Error 2

Now I can see that this has to do with the main.m file, but from the output I am not sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am new to GNUstep. Could I have mistakenly deleted the creation of it when working with gorm?

Answer 1

I found an aweomse tutorial here a few hours later. Here is the link. The Main file should basically look like this:

#include <AppKit/NSApplication.h>

int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) 
{
   return NSApplicationMain (argc, argv);
}

here's the link

http://gnustep.made-it.com/GSPT/xml/Tutorial_en.html#AEN412