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different GNUstep questions and comments
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Patrick Middleton |
Subject: |
different GNUstep questions and comments |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:13:06 +0100 |
I'm a Cocoa developer. I first saw OPENSTEP running on NeXT hardware as
the 4.0 prerelease 3 in late 1995, and then I went back to NX3.3. for a
bit. I've worked on WebObjects and on OPENSTEP/Cocoa apps, on
OPENSTEP/Mach, MacOSX, and WebObjectsDeveloper 4.5.1 on Windows. I've
been asked to look at GNUstep (Windows/MinGW) with a view to porting
some fairly big OPENSTEP/Mach projects.
The Windows standalone installer for the 1.10 make and base packages
worked flawlessly.
I am now struggling to get together all the libraries for the GNUstep
gui package to configure. It appears there's no current distribution of
libpng that provides a prebuilt dll and import library and headers, for
exmple. Trying to build one is problematic as the libpng project
doesn't 'configure', and while there is a provided makefile for Cygwin,
there isn't for MinGW. Similarly, I can build openssl 0.9.7e from
source, as that does provide a configuration mechanism for MinGW, but
the build products don't include DLLs and I'm not sure yet what to do
about it. [Still, it's nice to be using something newer than a
toolchain based on Cygwin, circa gcc-2.7.2.1 ]
Of course I could configure without openssl or png, but losing png in
particular is going to compromise my evaluation.
One of the things that fascinated me about OPENSTEP/Mach was that having
installed the Developer packages -- and there was a lot more to install
than for the User operating system, especially if you installed to
enable development on and for all supported architectures -- you were
ready to go once the installer finished., without needing even a single
reboot.
Is anybody working on a Windows standalone installer for the current
GNUstep gui package?
And for ProjectCenter, GORM, and assorted other developer apps and tools?
-- Patrick
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