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CMake build with GCC on macOS fails #231

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@snej

I'm trying to build Fleece with GCC 13 on my Mac, just so I can catch more build errors locally before pushing a PR. Unfortunately it doesn't work, because GCC doesn't appear to understand 'modern' Objective-C at all.

Steps to repro

After installing GCC with Homebrew, I just do this before running cmake:

export CC=/opt/homebrew/bin/gcc-13
export CXX=/opt/homebrew/bin/g++-13

Results

It fails with a bunch of instances of this error:

g++-13: error: unrecognized command-line option '-fobjc-arc'; did you mean '-fobjc-gc'?

I modified platform_apple.cmake to set the -fobjc-arc flag only with AppleClang. Then it emits this warning:

/Users/snej/Couchbase/CBL_C/vendor/couchbase-lite-core/vendor/fleece/Fleece/API_Impl/Fleece.cc:36:29: warning: 'visibility' attribute ignored [-Wattributes]
   36 | FLEECE_PUBLIC const FLValue kFLNullValue  = Value::kNullValue;
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~

followed by literally a bajillion errors in the .mm files due to GCC not understanding Obj-C block syntax (^), the nullable keyword, generic interfaces (like @interface NSEnumerator<ObjectType>), and on and on...

Analysis

Looks like we need to skip all the .mm files when building with GCC; that's fine since I don't intend to use the build products, just look for errors before they occur in CI.

Unfortunately I don't know CMake well enough to figure out how to conditionally remove them from platform_apple.cmake. All my attempts have resulted in cryptic errors from the cmake tool.

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