Re: Buidling gui and back on Windows

[Alex Perez]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Larry Cow wrote:

> Andreas Hoeschler a écrit :
> 
> > please excuse my ignorance. I have just installed the Windows binary 
> > from www.gnustep.org on a windows machine and started msys. How do I 
> > proceed from here to get gui and base installed? Or even get a simple 
> > "hello world" tool compiled. What editor or command line tool are you 
> > guys using to edit source files on Windows? Is there any tutorial for 
> > getting started with GNUstep on Windows?
> 
> I'm not sure whether there are a tutorial, but it isn't very hard. Once 
> you got make and base working (through Mingw and Msys), you need to 
> download recent tarballs of gui and back. Either CVS snapshots or latest 
> releases, it's up to you.

If you're using the windows GNUstep installer, use the latest -GUI 
release, not CVS.

> You can decompress those tarballs from msys without problem. But before 
> compiling them, you will need a few libraries (with headers). IIRC, 
> you'll need to have libjpeg, libungif, libpng and libtiff, compiled for 
> windows. For each, you'll have to put the headers (*.h) in 
> C:\GNUstep\Development\msys\1.0\mingw\include, and the rest (*.lib, *.a, 
> *.def) in ...\mingw\lib.

Larry, would you be willing to extend the windows installer to support 
-GUI? This has been an agenda item of mine but I haven't had the time, and 
you seem to know a lot more about GNUstep/Win32 than I do anyways.

> 
> Once it is done, you can run ./configure;make;make install for -gui and 
> back. Here, you'll remove all options that don't fit.
> 
> For example, in order to compile -back, I needed to use the following 
> configure:
> 
> ./configure --disable-glx --disable-xim --disable-glitz 
> --enable-graphics=winlib
> 
> If I didn't forget anything, you should have a running GNUstep, and be 
> able to compile and launch apps like Ink or GFractal. Don't forget that 
> gdomap, gdnc and gpbs aren't started automatically. Once in MSys, you 
> need to launch each one before any GNUstep app. And keep in mind that 
> some GNUstep apps or libs are dependant on unix things: there's very 
> little chance you manage to run GWorkspace on windows.

You also need to soure GNUstep.sh before GNUstep-make will work and you 
can compile things using it. I'm not sure if the msys shell does that for 
you automatically.

Alex Perez