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Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch
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Sheldon Gill |
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Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch |
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Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:09:10 +0800 |
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To re-iterate for Win32:
1) No .conf support. It's quite alien to the platform. The same information
that we get from '/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf' we should get from
HKLM\Software\GNU\GNUstep. (see previous posts)
- Yes, you'll need some way to set up the registry keys. Ideally an installer.
It's the way for the platform. Just deal with it. One day there'll be a nice
downloadable installer for users to get the core platform (Foundation, AppKit
and any required tools for a general users distribution)
If you're not sharing a set of libraries you should look at launchers, static
linking and other compile-time solutions for your application as the best way
out.
2) Home directories can have spaces in paths as far as -base and hence all
GNUstep applications are concerned. The _only_ issue is with 'make' AFAIK.
- Anyone up for 'jam' instead?
3) This means gnustep-make becomes an optional install of interest only to
developers. They'll need to do more to make the system build friendly. It's a
tough life...
4) If all fully Developer-centric things go into /Developer then it's quite
reasonable to expect static libraries to be there as well IMHO.
> By the way, DLLs need to be in the Tools folder in Win32 because this
> brain-dead system has only just one path, not one for binaries and
> another for libraries.
Umm... _no_! Putting shared libraries into the Tools folder is even more
brain-dead. Don't propagate the stupidity. There are better solutions.
It would seem to me that -base.dll and -gui.dll should be installed into
%WINDIR%\System32 along with the required support libraries (libtiff etc) and
all other libraries be found via the bundle mechanisms which can be made more
win-friendly.
> Thanks a lot for this work, tell us if you need help porting it to Win32.
Thank you for the offer. If I need to I'll take you up on it.
On the other hand; if you need changes for your commercial applications I _am_
a consultant at reasonable rates ;)
Regards,
Sheldon
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, (continued)
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Pete French, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, andre levy, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Adam Fedor, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Chris B. Vetter, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Alexander Malmberg, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Nicola Pero, 2004/01/29
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch, Marc Ordinas i Llopis, 2004/01/28
- Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch,
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