Re: building a self-contained deployable gnustep

[Julian Mayer]

> 
>> 
>> 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.  
> 

ok thanks, thats more encouraging ;-)


i guess thats just what i will do. i'll come back either with a set of working 
steps, or with problem reports ;->

thanks, julian

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