Re: Windows and GnuStep

[Riccardo]

Hello,

On Wednesday, February 1, 2006, at 04:48 PM, Andy Satori wrote:

> For what's it's worth, I wouldn't consider myself the average user, I 
> built Mono from the ground up on the Mac OS before it was supported, 
> I've built Gnome and GTK by hand on Mac OS.  I've also worked 
> extensively with Cygwin (and Win/U) to get Unix apps running on 
> Windows.    I'm not afraid of mucking with the system to get things 
> working, but there are limits, and getting GnuStep apps working on 
> Windows is currently beyond those limits.

even if I have quite some gnustep and unix experience, I am not 
certainly a windows expert. I used the installer for windows, installed 
on win2000 and everything was properly installed and works. It comes 
with no applications, IIRC but the whole environment is ready. it may 
not be the most flexible choice, but it is very easy.
I then compiled Gorm and it compiled fine, I compiled easy diff, and a 
couple of other apps and they just work (although they have some 
nuances, but I mean they start up). TextEdit too I think. The 
applications that didn't compile for me are due to the usage of MinGW 
and not Cygwin (but I cannot verify this claim at all, I don't know how 
much more unix-complete cygwin is and anyway currently it doesn't work 
with gnustep) and those application rely on "unixish" features, for 
example my FTP.app application relies on bsd/posix  style sockets.
But still, everything was fine and easy. The errors I found were due to 
the code of the specific applications and the MinGW usage, not real 
"GNUstep problems". Sure it should be improved and possibly some of 
these application can be either written more portably or they could get 
#ifdef'd code for windows/mingw support.

cheers,

   Riccardo