Re: Windows support

[Giah de Barag]

Thank you. Your perspective is helpful. After trying different wrong scenarios 
and learning from mistakes, I am starting to realize what is what. I apologize 
for helpless emails. I have assembled msys2, mingw64, mingw32 and compiled 
GNUstep on mingw32, and it seems fine.

I have spent time trying to discover why GDB crashes when you try to create an 
NSString convenience variable. This bug happens on Windows and Linux. I have 
built gdb from source and spent time debugging it and tracked down some of the 
offending code. As Gregory said about imploring and fixing, so am I attempting 
to do.

On Aug 23, 2016, at 04:45, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

Hi,


> On 23/08/2016 00:17, Giah de Barag wrote:
> To build GNUstep on Windows (where I work) GCC is required and Clang does not 
> work.
> 
> If GNUstep starts becoming incompatible with GCC, it will start breaking 
> GNUstep on Windows.


as for now, we are still fully compatible with GCC. Of course, you cannot use 
certain "features" that are available only in clang.
Sadly, there is little objective-c effort in the GCC theme and there were some 
releases that were quite bad: so how long the GNU compiler will be able to 
support GNU-step depends also on GCC's effort.

Currently, GCC support is still very good, I have no issues on Linux, BSD and 
Windows. All applications I maintain work on both compilers.

Sorry to read that you have many issues on Windows. I am able to compile and 
run most Applications that do have very specific needs. There are specific 
Window issues though.

Riccardo

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