light GNUstep install on windows (for deployment)

[Lloyd Dupont]

Just to share with you my findings on what a light install of GNUstep on windows would be:

 

1. copy these dlls (from $GNUSTEP/System/Tools) in your exe directory (or in the application's path):

gnustep-base.dll
gnustep-gui.dll 
iconv.dll       
jpeg62.dll      
libpng13.dll    
libtiff3.dll    
msvcr70.dll     
objc.dll        
zlib1.dll       

 

Copy the directory $GNUSTEP/System/Library somewhere (in your application directory?)

and in the main() of your application (before any GNUstep call) setup the GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT env variable to the directory where /Library was copied

(with something like putenv("GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=.\"))

standart dos path are OK (like "GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=C:\Program Files\My Super GNUstep Program")

 

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I still have one problem with that if someone could help.

the msvcr70.dll dependency.

isn't there anyway to get around it?

I mean, discard it and call the system version of MSVCRxxx.dll ?