Re: Calling the Win32 APIs

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 28 May 2008, at 19:04, Vance Grkov wrote:

> Hello
>
> I installed GNUstep on Windows and created a sample hello world  
> window based application (using NSWindow, NSView, NSButton ...)
>
> Now, how do I call Windows APIs from this GNUstep application?

In an ideal world, you use the GNUstep APIs and don't need to use  
windows APIs (since GNUstep is supposed to provide for cross-platform  
application development rather than deal with platform specific  
APIs) ... but you can call windows APIs directly if you need them for  
something.

> (Do I need to install the platform SDK first and will gcc work with  
> the MS headers and libraries.)

You will have mingw and msys installed with GNUstep.  The mingw  
project provides headers and stubs for the win32 libraries.  The msys  
stuff provides the development environment (gcc, make etc), so you  
should simply be able to use these directly.  If there are APIs that  
mingw doesn't support, that's probably best addressed by asking the  
mingw mailing lists (see www.mingw.org).