Re: Command line tool on Windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 May 2006, at 14:18, Ruotger Skupin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to build a command line tool on windows which works "out of  
> the box". This means you just copy over the .exe file to a "virgin"  
> Windows machine and you are ready to go.
>
> 1. Is that possible with GnuStep or CygWin/GnuStep? (i.e.: linking  
> everything that's needed into the .exe)
>
> 2. If it's possible, what would be roughly the steps to take to get  
> there? (Unfortunately I have little idea where to start)

I don't think it's realistically possible ... you need at least the  
objective-c runtime library and the gnustep-base library, and I don't  
know how/if these could be built in to your program rather than as  
DLLs.   While static linking of the libraries my be possible, I think  
nobody does it.

When people talk about working 'out of the box', they usually mean  
that there is an installer package which installs the required  
libraries/reources and the executable (perhaps all in the same  
directory).  That's certainly possible.