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Re: Windows and GnuStep


From: Richard Frith-Macdonald
Subject: Re: Windows and GnuStep
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:55:53 +0000


On 5 Feb 2006, at 05:34, Christopher Armstrong wrote:

In the short term, may I advise you try building GNUstep using Cygwin.

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I know how difficult it is to get GNUstep SVN building from source and
actually getting something to run, let alone develop for it. Having left GNUstep for a couple of months, I decided to try and get an environment
up and running from scratch again recently. 3 hours and some command
line options to ./configure later, I had gnustep-back compiled.

Would it be possible for you to post the procedure for doing this so that others can try using cygwin (or better still, patches so that a build on cygwin will work out-fo-the-box)? I ask because none of the gnustep developers has been using cygwin as far as I know, and I've seen several reports saying it won't build.

The pure windows (mingw32) version on the other hand builds from svn readily simply by following the procedure in the README.MinGW in the gnustep-back package.

BTW, the
GNUstep.conf file path seems to be hardcoded into gnustep-make, that it
keeps going to /c/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf-dev.

It's a configurable option ('configure --help' for details)

On yet another side note, despite having built GNUstep for me in the
past, it would appear Gorm has regressed (it can't find it's bundles,
even though the bloody things are in Gorm.app/Resources).

Strange ... works for me with mingw32 ... perhaps a cygwin specific problem?

If I may make a suggestion to the community, it would be providing a
pre-built Mingw/Msys environment with all the ffcall and
tiff/jpeg/png/iconv/libintl/libobjc/etc binaries already inserted into
it (without GNUstep compiled), so that developers can get started
building GNUstep straight away.

I believe the windows installer does that (though with a ready built GNUstep too). My understanding is that it's supposed to give you the whole environment, then you can update the source and rebuild whate3ver version you want.

This might help save about 2 of the 3
hours usually required before actually building GNUstep on Windows that
is spent finding and installing all these little files.

Yes, while locating things is trivial (the README.MinGW tells you where to get everything), downloading/installing the dependencies slow/tedious, especially when the sites concerned are overloaded/down.





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