Re: GNUstep in Windows 10 - Epic Fail

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Jay,



On 08/07/2017 00:51, Jay Versluis wrote:
> 1.) Does GNUstep even run on Windows 10? Or am I trying the impossible?

Yes it does work.  I actually work on Windows 7, but I tested the 
resulting applications on windows 8 and windows 10 and they do run fine.

> 2.) Those installers… how old are they, and what version Windows have 
> they been tested with?

If I am correct, they are from last year and have been tested from 
Windows Vista to Windows 10.

> 3.) Am I correct in assuming that all my efforts inside Windows need 
> to be done inside MINGW? Or does this need to happen on the Windows 
> command line?

You are correct, although you could also say that mingw is running in 
your command line.

> 4.) Even with all the time I’m pouring into this “tapping in the dark” 
> experience, will I ever be able to compile a standalone command-line 
> Windows app? What I mean is, is this actually possible? Has anyone 
> successfully done it?

Yes, of course, also graphical applications run.

> I’m still hopeful that I can utilise Objective-C for cross platform 
> development. But if I’m beating a dead horse here, please let me know.

You can. I distribute and work daily with GS GUI applications. I do 
however use GCC and not clang, so that may be an additional issue as may 
be not.
I also ported a couple of GS applications to WIndows just to prove that 
it can be done :)

Also, there is the win32 and the cairo backend to choose with, depending 
on the bugs and features you need and want to fight with :)
Apart from its known alpha-channel limitation, the win32 "GDI" backend 
works perfectly for me, but it does not work well with scaled displays 
(high res display where the interface is scaled e.g. 125%).  I don't 
know if it can be improved and/or the cairo backend suffers of that too.
However you are working with command-line, so that is a totally 
different thing.

Have fun.

Riccardo