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: "p...@seat-1.com" <p...@seat-1.com> Sent: Thursday, 24 March, 2011 16:37 To: gnustep-dev@gnu.org 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. -- mit freundlichen Gruessen/best regards Pirmin Braun seat-1 Software GmbH - Sinziger Str. 29a - 53424 Remagen +49(0)2642 308288 +49(0)163-6290887 - skype:pirminb Fax +49(0)2642 308626 http://www.seat-1.com p...@seat-1.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/intars Geschäftsführer: Pirmin Braun, Ralf Engelhardt Registergericht: Amtsgericht Coburg HRB3136 ein Unternehmen der MAX21 Gruppe - http://www.max21.de _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev