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libobjc2 should be buildable from the MSYS2 command line...
It is necessary for this library to be buildable and usable just like any other library in MSYS2 so that we can utilize ObjC2 features when building from the MSYS2 command line.
There is currently no MinGW Objective-C ABI and the hacks that MinGW does to combine the Itanium and Windows C++ ABIs make it very hard to add one.
Hard or not that still does not change the fact that this library is not as portable as it should be.
This shortcoming has caused quite a bit of grief at my current position and things would have been greatly simplified if this had been considered.
Given that you said to me in the past that if I wanted to do these changes I could and you would consider merging them I am going to take you up on that offer.
I will create a branch or a fork and when it is ready for review I will let you know. GC
Happy to take a PR, but it will require working with the MinGW team to ensure that they are exposing the right symbols to allow interop with their C++ EH model. This is complicated because they are layering Itanium-style EH on top of SEH in a complicated way. You'll also need to modify clang to handle the mingw target triple.
I'd suggest that, if you really want to suffer through all of this, that you start with a design doc proposing all of the things that you need to change and how you plan on changing them.