Re: Cocotron used for a real-world app

[Nicola Pero]

> > Possibly.  But then they will need to install a virtual machine  
> > anyway to test the Windows port ...
>
> Just for clarification: this is *much* less trouble than described.  
> All OSX VMs can expose the local OSX folders to Windows,

Sure - the gnustep-make route is also much less trouble then, since  
you can type 'make' inside the shared Xcode folder
directly without having to copy anything ;-)


> Additionally the build system of Xcode is quite a bit faster

Well, yes, Xcode will certainly have all of GCC and the binutils/ 
linker chain very optimized if you
build for anything Apple; but to cross-compile to Windows, Cocotron  
use their own compiler and linker - taken
from the very same pool of GNU tools that GNUstep uses - so I don't  
expect you'll see much difference
between Cocotron and GNUstep here. ;-)

Anyway, you have good points that cross-compiling from Xcode might be  
appealing to some people. :-)

It wouldn't be difficult to set up a similar thing for cross-compiling  
from Apple to Windows using GNUstep.
You need to get a MinGW cross-compilation environment running on your  
Apple, then get the GNUstep
libraries in it.  Then tell Xcode to use the cross-compilation  
compiler. :-)

Thanks