Re: Installing GNUstep for Windows 7

[Fred Kiefer]

On 16.06.2011 19:33, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> On 16. lip. 2011., at 01:06, Germán Arias wrote:
> > On mié, 2011-06-15 at 08:57 -0400, B. Ossia wrote:
> > > One more question, I also need to install Cygwin for running some
> > > other simulation software. Any idea that GNUstep provides the
> > > same environment as Cygwin? If not, any idea if GNUstep
> > > may conflict with Cygwin.
> >
> > I'm not sure, but the README files should say something about this.
>
> I think the compiler will conflict. You could probably be best off
> compiling GNUstep under Cygwin, I'm pretty sure that will work, as long
> as their GCC supports Objective-C. (You can test by writing a piece of
> pure C code, but compiling it with "gcc -x objective-c inputfilehere -o
> program.exe".)

According to reports on this mailing list, GNUstep currently wont work 
on Cygwin. There never was a clear report what is failing and the last 
time I tried it worked (which was about ten years ago :-). But compiling 
GNUstep on Cygwin is definitely not something I would suggest to a newby.

Perhaps all the people interested in GNUstep on Cygwin could get 
together and make this usable again? It shouldn't be to hard :-)
I expect that most of the needed changes are in GNUstep-make and some of 
the configuration scripts. And of course you will have to find correctly 
compiled versions of all the required libraries.