Re: CYGWIN Problems
Hey Darryl, GNUstep on c ygwin is currently not functional anymore, although there has been discussion to revive it. The current preferrred way to have GNUstep on windows is to use mingw. We have an adapted version of MinGW which installs together will all the necessary dependencies and comes with a practical windows installer, you can download it from our site. It comes with a core and a system installer, one is the mingw base runtime with debugger, basic mingw, compiler and all requried dependencies, the rest is the core gnustep system. It comes with no applications, which you can easily install yourself as you would on a unix system. You can also update the core gnustep system easily. Using mingw, GNUstep applications run drawing the Win32 API and GDI, thus they are essentially native in the working, but not in the look, which is the same as on unix. It does not reqwuire X11 however. GNUstep on windows is currently usable, but it is not exactly on par with the standard experience on the major unix system. I have successfully compiled and sued several applications though. The development tools themselves to work, PRICE does work and most of the GAP user applications do work, not the system ones though, due to the lack of some system calls in mingw. Have a nice hacking, Riccardo - Original Message - From: "Darryl Agostinelli" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:08 PM Subject: CYGWIN Problems > Hi, > I'm having some trouble getting GNUStep to work on CygWin. Then I found out > that it's not officially supported. I'm sad. So, this is a plea email. > ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
Re: CYGWIN Problems
On Dec 24, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Darryl Agostinelli wrote: 2) gnustep-startup-0.20.1 has this progressive_mode problem with libJpeg. I see that gnustep-gui-0.16.0 doesn't have that problem, but it's not in gnustep-startup-0.20.1. 3) So I tried to fake out gnustep-startup-0.20.1, by putting in the tar ball for gnustep-gui-0.16.0 and getting rid of the one that comes with gnustep-startup-0.20.1, but that didn't work. I got some error about "VERSIONS" not being found (see attached log) 4) I also tried to run ./configure on the individual packages like gnustep-gui-0.16.0, but it complains that it can't find install-sh. "make" doesn't work because it can't find stuff that needs to be created by ./configure. I just released gnustep-startup-0.22.0 which should fix the jpeg problem. I'm not sure why you have trouble compiling individual packages though. install.sh should be in the packages. Perhaps if I saw the exact log. ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
Re: CYGWIN Problems
Darryl, We are taking a look at adding the option to install on Cygwin back into GNUstep (it previously worked). :) In the meantime you might be interested in the MinGW installers here: http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html#windows The installers should install a basic MinGW system and gnustep core which will allow you to run any programs you like. Thank you for your feedback and your interest in GNUstep. Thanks, Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc # GNUstep Chief Maintainer From: Darryl Agostinelli To: gnustep-dev@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:08:44 PM Subject: CYGWIN Problems Hi, I'm having some trouble getting GNUStep to work on CygWin. Then I found out that it's not officially supported. I'm sad. So, this is a plea email. Here's my basic case... Apple has popularized Obj-C and I'd really like to learn it now. But I'm a PC user and don't much want to buy a Mac. Cygwin is the saving grace. I also know about the MiniGW environment, but my very simple Obj-C apps don't work in MiniGW! (i.e. Hello World) Anyhow, I use Cygwin for lots of other stuff and I'm sure others out there do too. So I'm hoping that since Apple is popularizing Obj-C, maybe there will be more PC people like me interested in learning it. And maybe we can kindly pressure your esteemed group to support our favorite unix-like environment for the PC: Cygwin. There are all kinds of problems with trying to use GNUStep on CygWin. Here's a short list: 1) It takes millennia to figure out all the dependencies -- I ran Cygwin setup a dozen times every time I discovered 1 or 2 more. 2) gnustep-startup-0.20.1 has this progressive_mode problem with libJpeg. I see that gnustep-gui-0.16.0 doesn't have that problem, but it's not in gnustep-startup-0.20.1. 3) So I tried to fake out gnustep-startup-0.20.1, by putting in the tar ball for gnustep-gui-0.16.0 and getting rid of the one that comes with gnustep-startup-0.20.1, but that didn't work. I got some error about "VERSIONS" not being found (see attached log) 4) I also tried to run ./configure on the individual packages like gnustep-gui-0.16.0, but it complains that it can't find install-sh. "make" doesn't work because it can't find stuff that needs to be created by ./configure. I blew hours on this stuff. Anyhow, I'd love to use your system on Cygwin if you'll be so kind as to make it work well on that. Very kind regards and happy holidays to you all, -D ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
