The blocksruntime library is easy to build and available broadly, in case just including it becomes the easier path.
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libblocksruntime/libblocksruntime_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz Ken On 2023-05-30, at 1:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Lennart! > > On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 16:39 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> I had a poke at it, dealt with a couple of compile issues, then >> encountered Blocks and went WTF did Apple invent here? I don't even >> understand the description of their proprietary extension to C/C++/ObjC. >> >> I had never seen code with ^ prefixed to things in this way and since I >> don't understand what Blocks are supposed to accomplish I have no idea >> how to remove them from the code. > > The BlocksRuntime library is already partially patched out on my »linux« > branch > using a patch originally from Fedora: > >> https://github.com/glaubitz/hfs/commit/d6ea3fe324a6b018ebe7934b9f95a624b047dc2d >> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hfsplus-tools/blob/rawhide/f/hfsplus-tools-no-blocks.patch > > Additional occurrences should be patched out in a similar way. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
