Re: GNUStep pre-compiled SD Card

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Guys!

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> Riccardo has an older Raspberry Pi and is not sure about preparing stuff on an 
> SD card, but I have ordered a Raspberry Pi 2, which should be delivered today, 
> and be waiting for me when I get home tomorrow.
> Obviously it will take me a while to familiarise myself with it, but with 
> Riccardo’s help, I’d expect to be able to build GNUstep for it by the end of 
> the week.
> So you don’t need to contact him directly (unless you wish to of course), and 
> you don’t need to do anything yourself, though you may want to 
> browsewww.gnustep.org  and alsowww.nongnu.org/gap/  (a collection of apps which 
> aren’t part of the gnustep project, but are written for gnustep)

I have the orignal raspberry Pi and GNUstep runs quite wll on it. I 
don't know how the situation with the new one is, but mine could be 
ordered with a SD Card which auto-installed the operating system of 
choice (at first boot it had some sort of chooser).
I don't know if just "cloning" my card would be a good idea, especially 
since your hardware is different.
The operating system I have is Raspbian, a special port of Debian, what 
do you have?

Let me note what I did for current GNUstep, it might help you and Richard.
I installed GCC and all the basic required dependencies (libxml, ffi, 
graphic libraries for gui like jpg, gif, tiff, png, cairo)

make configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep --with-layout=gnustep

(for a total NeXT/Mac experience, make prefix=/ )

base configure:
./configure --disable-icu

(perhaps ICU was available, I just wanted a smaller system and we do 
reasonably well without)

gui configure: no additional parameters
back configure: no additional parameters

That is just enough... I built GWorkspace, Ink & Terminal without any 
problems and they appear to run. I will do further experiments the 
coming weeks.

Riccardo