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RE: gnustep-base on cygwin help needed
From: |
Nicola Pero |
Subject: |
RE: gnustep-base on cygwin help needed |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:42:37 +0100 (CET) |
cygwin is not officially supported; only mingw is.
So, we don't have ready-to-use advice and answers on how to build things
on cygwin. :-(
I wish I could point you to a document or a set of instructions
for cygwin, but we don't have one.
It is almost certainly possible to get things working on cygwin if you
are prepared to work on it - including making some changes to gnustep-make
and gnustep-base. But there is some work to do, and some of these things
would not be obvious.
If you're just trying to get GNUstep working on Windows, I strongly advise
you to try MinGW - because then we have well-tested instructions and even
a binary installer that makes things easier for you! :-)
If cygwin support is required for you, and mingw is not acceptable, then
there is work to do. We can try to help, but it's not easy without having
access to a cygwin box, so you'd have to do the bulk of the work.
Anyhow, to answer your questions,
* first of all, in terms of strategy, I recommend attacking one problem at a
time.
Your first problem is getting basic Objective-C stuff working. Arm yourself
with
patience.
* so, use the latest cygwin GCC/binutils package you can get, and make sure it
includes
Objective-C support (of course)
* first, try with the libobjc included in GCC. If that works, it may save you
some complications.
(remember that as a first attempt you're just trying to get basic stuff to
work, you shouldn't
be worrying about Objective-C "2.0" or stuff like that yet)
* if that doesn't work, you'll need to use a custom libobjc - either the
libobjc or libobjc2
library from the GNUstep repository would work. To use them, do
configure/make/make install
in gnustep-make, then make/make install in libobjc (or libobjc2), then
configure/make/make install
in gnustep-make again to have it detect the new libobjc.
* you'll get stuck. Or not - if you don't, maybe everything works straight
away on cygwin, which
would be great. I somehow doubt it.
* When you get stuck, send a full dump with as many logs and information as
you can to the mailing
list. Someone may be able to help - or not. If you can arrange remote
access to a cygwin box,
that may help anyone who volunteers to help you out.
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, 24 March, 2011 16:37
To: address@hidden
Subject: gnustep-base on cygwin help needed
I'm stuck with getting a simple GNUstep tool run on cygwin.
Can someone help please?
First of all I need some advice which gcc and libobj to use.
Then a review of configure output and compiler warnings.
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