GNUStep on Windows

[Chris Karr]

Apologies in advance if this is covered elsewhere, but I didn't find  
what I need, hence this note.

I'm working on a research project for applying artificial intelligence  
techniques toward creating adaptive applications. I've written a  
system that does this on the Mac called Pennyworth:

        http://pennyworth.aetherial.net/

It's a fairly straightforward Objective-C application that predicts  
the user's context and disseminates it to listening applications.

I've been looking into options for porting it to Linux and Windows. I  
recently caught a recent FLOSS Weekly that featured your project and I  
was intrigued by it and the Chameleon theming software. Ideally, I'd  
like to use those technologies create a native Windows (and Linux)  
application that mirrors the Mac app's functionality.

Unfortunately, while the Windows installation went smoothly on my  
Vista (32 bit) machine, I couldn't run any programs other than the  
launcher without incurring a crash. I don't know if this is a problem  
with my machine, or a more general issue (it's a pretty basic Vista  
setup), but if I can send crash reports somewhere, please let me know.

Over the long run, I was curious whether using GNUStep as a foundation  
for native Windows development is a robust strategy. As a software  
developer myself, I understand well the challenges of deploying robust  
code, but I doubt that my users will be as understanding. If there's  
something obviously wrong that I'm doing, please let me know.

Thank you.

-Chris