Re: GNUstep Windows Installer

[Adam Fedor]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> make:
> The Readme.MINGW file and the GNUstep on Windows Wiki page
> (http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_on_Windows) suggest to
> use ./configure --with-layout=fhs, but you seem to have used ./ 
> configure
> --prefix=/GNUstep. I don't mind either of them, but we should be
> consistent. Otherwise people end up with two GNUstep installations.
Yes.  There is no native layout in Windows (At least not that a  
normal Windows user is aware of), so the GNUstep layout is probably  
the best.



> 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.
That's probably because I cross-compiled everything to save time.  I  
really haven't tested out compiling things on Windows except for some  
simple stuff.  I should probably test that more.


> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
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