Re: [Q] Can you let me know on windows app using GNUstep?

[Lloyd Dupont]

Well I did it, but that doesn't seems to work anymore with latest release.
Apparently latest CVS release have new dependencies on a rigid filesystem 
and configuration files.  I have yet to sort it out.
In fact I'm not sure about anything latest release, it doesn't seems to work 
at all to be exact.

Anyway at the time I did it there was basically 3 things to do:
1. copy every DLL in GNUstep/System/Tool in you binary directory
2. copy the directories GNUstep/System/Library & GNUstep/System/share in 
some app specific directory (like your binary directory), let's call it 
gsroot
3. at the startup of your app setup 3 environment variable to point to 
gsroot (as an absolute path, it's safer) with a call like that (mix of 
ObjectiveC & ManagedC++ pseudo code).

String^ gsroot = AppDomain::CurrentDomain->BaseDirectory;
String^ sysroot = String::Format("GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT={0}", gsroot);
String^ netroot = String::Format("GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT={0}", gsroot);
String^ locroot = String::Format("GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT={0}", gsroot);
STRING_TO_POINTER_ANSI(sysroot, p_sysroot)
STRING_TO_POINTER_ANSI(netroot, p_netroot)
STRING_TO_POINTER_ANSI(locroot, p_locroot)
STRING_TO_POINTER_ANSI(appname, p_name)
char *env[] = {(char*)p_sysroot, (char*)p_netroot, (char*)p_locroot, NULL};
[NSProcessInfo initializeWithArguments:__argv count:__argc environment:env];

NSProcessInfo cache the environment variable's value when initialized.
So if any ObjectiveC method is called before setenv(), that won't work, so 
it's why you should "initialize" environment variable with NSProcessInfo.


Now it might works for you.
But I just did a clean rebuild of GNUstep and it's not working at all.... so 
I'm lost right now....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sungjin Chun" <chunsj@embian.com>
To: "Lloyd Dupont" <lloyd@nova-mind.com>
Cc: "Discuss GNUstep" <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:01 PM
Subject: [Q] Can you let me know on windows app using GNUstep?


> Hi,
>
> From mailling list archive I found that you did create normal  windows 
> application using gnustep-base in C or other languages than  ObjC. What I 
> want to ask to you is that what should you do for this  during loading of 
> gnustep-base.dll. Can you let me know one this? Or  simple code snippet?
>
> Thanks in advance.