Re: GNUstep Windows Installer

[Christopher Armstrong]

Hi Fred

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:45:46, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> base:
> It looks like the xml2-config script in the mingw/bin directory is not
> set up correctly. Changing its first variable to point to the real
> directory (I think it was just /mingw) solves the problem.

I have noticed this issue as well with the pre-packaged binaries.  
Compiling libxml2 from source works alot better IMHO. libxslt2 doesn't  
seem to want to compile from source correctly, though. Its symbols  
clobber libgnustep-base so badly that they hide every other library's  
symbols in the export of the DLL (use the "Dependency Walker" tool/ 
depends.exe on libgnustep-base-015.dll to see what I mean).

> gui:
> Here a problem with the type boolean that gets defined in two imported
> header files needs to be resolved. I worked around this by hacking  
> in a
> #define boolean JPEG_BOOL into the libjpeg.h file.

I had this problem as well. It doesn't seem to occur with the release  
version of GNUstep.

> After all that I still have problem starting up an application. This  
> is
> caused by gui not finding the backend. I expect that this is caused by
> some unusual language settings (German) on my computer. At least  
> this is
> the only hint I get from GNUstep. I report back on that issue as  
> soon as
> I find out more.

I had the same issue as well, but with my own generated installer  
(maybe with Adam's, I'm not sure). I thought it was a problem in my  
configuration as I was using my own generated installer which  
downloads newer mingw/msys binaries which I think may be problematic.  
I don't think it is your language settings because I use the default  
English language settings i.e. I don't configure GNUstep for another  
language.

I will test GNUstep SVN against Adam's new installer and see if I get  
the same issues.

Cheers

Chris