Re: Windows support

[Gregory Casamento]

Hey

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Giah de Barag <gdb@crelg.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is great news.  I'm glad to hear that you're helping to improve gdb.  :)

> 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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