Frederik, Congratulations on this release! Wonderful!
GC On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:39 PM Frederik Seiffert <frede...@algoriddim.com> wrote: > I am pleased to announce a new GNUstep project containing a set of scripts > to build GNUstep for Windows with Clang and libobjc2 using the Visual > Studio toolchain and MSVC ABI (i.e. without MinGW): > > https://github.com/gnustep/tools-windows-msvc > > The scripts currently build GNUstep Base with all dependencies, plus also > libdispatch. Invoking build.bat from an x86 or x64 Visual Studio developer > command prompt will build all libraries for that architecture for both > debug and release CRT libraries. Each library is either build directly in > the Windows shell (libobjc2, libiconv, libxml2, libxslt), or an MSYS2 Bash > shell is spawned for libraries requiring such an environment (libffi, > GNUstep Make/Base). > > I only found usable pre-built binaries for Pthread-win32 and ICU (and no > good way to integrate NuGet packages), so all the others are built from > source. Since building for MSVC is far from standard for projects coming > from Unix (but fortunately always supported in some way it seems), each of > them requires their very own special setup, and required a lot of massaging > to get everything working. > > The resulting set of DLLs should be usable to integrate Objective-C code > in basically any Windows app that is not using MinGW, using either clang or > clang-cl to build ObjC code. The Readme contains some info on the required > compiler and linker flags. Hopefully down the line we can also get other > GNUstep libraries on board as to offer a more complete GNUstep package for > Windows MSVC. > > (I also took a brief stab at trying to build Objective-C code in Visual > Studio, but unfortunately it adds a /TP flag forcing clang-cl to treat the > input as C++ (just like CMake). I’m guessing there are ways around this as > WinObjC was able to integrate ObjC files in VS, which we can hopefully > figure out some time.) > > While many tests in Base are still failing for various reasons, I plan on > spending more time on this in the coming months and will also try to add > MSVC to the Travis CI setup so we can ensure the configuration stays > supported. I already set up CI via GitHub Actions for the scripts > themselves (not running any tests atm.). (And btw. GitHub Actions runners > seem *much* faster than Travis CI.) > > Thank you all and especially David for helping me get this working, and > bearing with me through all my messages to the mailing list on this topic > over the last year! I’m looking forward to see what comes out of this > effort. > > Frederik > > > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://gf.me/u/x8m3sx - My GNUstep GoFundMe https://teespring.com/stores/gnustep - Store
