Re: GNUStep apps for Windows

[Rick VanNorman]

Let me clarify my question just a bit. I have been given the task
of migrating an OS X application into a cross-platform application.
QT isn't a good solution, because the originator of the code 
doesn't want to port the code to C++, and QT doesn't support a 
clean interface to Objective-C. The originator assures me that the
app really only uses a small portion of the GUI part of Cocoa, and
that the bulk is purely Objective-C data manipulation. To add to
the issue, there is a short timeline for this porting effort.

So the question is really: is it possible, today, to compile some
subset of GNUStep for Windows resulting in a useful GUI application
that could be distributed? 

That still might not be the correct question, but is certainly
closer than I got to it before.

Thanks, 
Rick

On 2004-09-01, Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone
>> actually tried to release one? 
>
> People generally release an app for GNUstep, not an app for "GNUstep on
> Windows".   So your question is a little ambigiuous
>
>> Is there any hope, or should I just
>> run screaming into the cold dark night?
>
> There is hope.   GNUstep applications run prefectly on Linux and BSD and other
> OSes, it's only a matter of time before the Windows backend is complete and
> they're running there as well.