Re: Looking for help getting started with GNU

[Philippe Roussel]

Le lundi 02 août 2010 à 16:43 -0400, Allen Montgomery a écrit :
> I am an experienced programmer, but mostly with high level languages.
> With C, the language is not a problem, but the environment can be.
> 
> I have a windows xp system, and I have just downloaded and executed
> the following files:
> 
> gnustep-mysys-system-0.25.1-setup.exe
> gnustep-core-0.25.0-setup.exe
> gnustep-devel-1.1.1-setup.exe
> 
> I'm not really sure what to do next. Is there an editor in there, or
> do I just use notepad? Once I've written my code, how do I actually
> compile it? By the way, I am perfectly comfortable with batch file
> programming. I suspect I have everything I need to get started. But I
> wonder if someone might be willing to talk me through the process of
> actually compiling my first program in this new environment. Let's
> start with something simple, like printing the alphabet. If I want to
> do anything more complicated than that, I'm sure I can find all the
> online reference materials I need.

Hi Allen,

You could start with the following tutorial :

http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/index.html

It should work under *nix, windows etc. You just have to know how to run
a terminal in your environment.

Hope this helps,
Philippe