Re: Distribution of gnustep-based software

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Michele,

Michele Bert wrote:
> I need to create a multiplatform gui app, which later has to be
> distributed to quite unexperienced users (let me say that way). I
> would really like to use gnustep, but I wonder how can I distribute
> the program to my friends. When I developed with MFC on Visual C++, it
> was sufficient to copy a set of dll: can I do something similar with
> gnustep, or is the installation procedure strictly required?

what platforms do you want to distirbute on? As Fred said, you have the 
option to make a self-contained app on Unix (Didn't try since a long time).

For windows you have several options too:
- try the above method
- package all necessary DLLs and resources inside the app bundle,as a 
single directory [1]
- package the app itself as NSIS so it can be easily installed: this 
requires you to build against the official windows packages and require 
them to have them installed, but it makes the installation very "windows 
like" ans the future uninstallation

Riccardo

[1] as an example: 
https://github.com/gnustep/gap/blob/master/user-apps/DataBasin/windows_package.sh