[Geany-devel] OSX build error: ld: unknown option: --export-dynamic

[Matthew Brush]

On 12-07-17 01:32 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe wrote:
> Sorry to be kind of spammy today. Just ran into what looks like a
> build error? I cloned the git repo, ran autogen.sh, and make is giving
> me this error:
>
> -------------
>
>    CC     utils.o
>    CC     vte.o
>    CXXLD  geany
> ld: unknown option: --export-dynamic
>
> -------------
>
> This is on osx Lion. Any suggestions?
>
>

Yep, this and your last problem were both things I had to figure out 
too. This export dynamic problem is because Geany doesn't deal with OSX 
separately and lumps it in with "non-Windows" in the Makefile. 
Unfortunately this linker flag is invalid on OSX but is needed on Linux 
(and others?) for Glade to connect to the signal handlers at runtime.

Quick Fix: Just delete everywhere you see `-Wl,--export-dynamic` in the 
Makefile.am files (probably only in `src/Makefile.am`). We can't do this 
in Geany proper because it won't work correctly on Linux then.

Real Fix: In the configure.ac, detect OSX somehow and do an 
AM_CONDITIONAL or something like this so that the Makefile can set the 
LDFLAGS differently for OSX than other Unices. If done correctly, a 
patch would be most welcome. I can't remember if I fixed this properly 
in my changes or if I just did the quick fix.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush