Re: building a self-contained deployable gnustep

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 13 Oct 2011, at 11:25, Julian Mayer wrote:
> 
> the remaining problem is, i do not know how to build and package gnustep in a 
> way so it is loaded from my app-folder wherever it resides. it seems to 
> expect being in a global location.
> 
> the only resources i could find on this topic are
> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Deployment_on_Windows
> which applies to windows only - i'd need the same thing for linux.

I think that's obsolete and someone (hint to anyone on the list) might revise 
it.

For a while now it's been moderately easy to deploy standalone GNUstep systems 
using the mechanisms in the base library documentation under the section for 
relocatable packages, which basically allow you to define the locations of all 
resources and directories relative to wherever the base library is installed.

What we miss, for making it *really* simple, is a standard layout (in the 
FilesystemLayouts directory of gnustep-make) to provide the GNUstep.conf file 
to put everything in the same directory (assuming that's what you want). At the 
moment you need to edit such a file by hand rather than using a predefined one.