Re: GNUstep in Windows 10 - Epic Fail

[Jay Versluis]

Thanks David,

I had no idea Microsoft had this project - very exciting tip indeed! I'll check 
it out :-)

JAY VERSLUIS
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> On Jul 8, 2017, at 07:20, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Jul 2017, at 23:51, Jay Versluis <versluis2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> However, I guess I need clang and LLVM to compile for Objective-C 2.0 and 
>> ARC. Again, not a problem, I’ve downloaded both those sources using the 
>> MINGW shell and want to build them. The LLVM site says this can’t be done 
>> with gcc of course, and I need cmake. So I’m downloading that too, and 
>> building it using its own bootstrap tool, I’m getting an error. Sadly the 
>> tool does not tell me what’s wrong: it points me to the log file, which 
>> tells me everything went fine. But when I try to build cmake, naturally I 
>> get an error. Sigh.
> 
> If you are intending to use clang on Windows for Objective-C, then I’d 
> strongly recommend using Microsoft’s fork of both clang/LLVM and the GNUstep 
> Objective-C runtime:
> 
> https://github.com/microsoft/winobjc/
> 
> These contain a number of patches for better Windows support (including 
> things like interoperability between Objective-C[++] and C++ exceptions on 
> Windows) that Microsoft is in process of upstreaming to the various projects. 
>  I believe that they also supply pre-built versions of these for Visual 
> Studio.
> 
> David
>