I've discovered (below) that I need to use -fblocks when compiling code which uses blocks.
What library do I need to link against to let the linker resolve _NSConcreteStackBlock? (On Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.)
chris@chris-desktop:~$ clang ctest.c
ctest.c:3:25: error: blocks support disabled - compile with -fblocks or pick a
deployment target that supports them
void call_a_block(void (^blockptr)(int)) {
^
ctest.c:11:19: error: blocks support disabled - compile with -fblocks or pick a
deployment target that supports them
call_a_block( ^(int y) {
^
2 diagnostics generated.
chris@chris-desktop:~$ clang ctest.c -fblocks
/tmp/cc-4sPSeO.o: In function `main':
ctest.c:(.text+0x79): undefined reference to `_NSConcreteStackBlock'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
Clang doesn't yet provide an easy way to use blocks on platforms that don't have built-in operating system support (e.g., SnowLeopard). You can find some more information on the libdispatch project here:
http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/
and on the compiler-rt project (which provides the blocks runtime) here:
http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/
but this is not yet well packaged for Clang end users.
If you want to dig in a bit, the compiler-rt project does have the blocks runtime in it, and you can use that to build a library which will provide the NSConcreteStackBlock.
Use the instructions at http://mackyle.github.com/blocksruntime/ to build a libBlocksRuntime.a library that you can link with.
Install the libBlocksRuntime on Ubuntu with:
sudo apt-get install llvm
sudo apt-get install clang
sudo apt-get install libblocksruntime-dev
To compile, include the library and -fblocks:
clang ctest.c -fblocks -lBlocksRuntime
This is also available on other operating systems. FreeBSD and MidnightBSD both include clang and libBlocksRuntime.so