Re: Can't Get Program To Compile--Help

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Jan 2011, at 01:46, jokerClay wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to learn Objective-C on a Windows Vista machine.  I have
> installed the GNUstep installs for Windows and have successfully compiled a
> "Hello World" program.  I thought I was home free to start getting into some
> coding until I tried the next tutorial that imported some files i.e.
> "Foundation/NSObject.h".  At first, I was getting "Foundation/NSObject.h no
> file or directory found" error.

Then something is badly wrong ... either things aren't installed properly 
(which is pretty impossible if you installed from a package), or you are doing 
something wrong.
From past experience the most likely errors are:

1. Trying to work from a DOS window etc where the environment is not properly 
set up.  The package installation process should have left you with a shortcut 
labelled 'GNUstep' ... and clicking on that should get you to a Mingw32 shell 
window in which you can build software with all the correct environment 
variables set up.

2. Trying to build without using gnustep-make to pass the correct arguments to 
the compiler.  You should be compiling simply by typing 'make'.  There are 
tutorials on using gnustep-make (eg. 
http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/index.html)