Re: GNUstep/StepTalk on Windows

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

GNUstep developers: if you understand the issue better, may I ask you for a 
small help?

On 2003-11-09 23:49:50 +0100 Alexander V. Diemand 
<Alexander.Diemand@etu.unil.ch> wrote:

> The windows version of StepTalk is working +/- stable (using Mingw). I
> had to switch back from framework to library mode. This was needed
> because some of the GNUstep makefiles do not work in framework mode due
> to lack of "ln -s" under Mingw/Windows. :-(

Concerning Windows: Is here anyone who understands better the issue (frameworks, dlls and 
stuff)? Is there a way, how to make frameworks work on windows, even using "ugly 
hacks"? From user's point if view it should look like standard frameworks, how it is 
behind, users do not have to care. Even if there was a tool that will shamelessly copy 
.dlls of frameworks to some place where windows can find them. Is there any temporary 
solution?

> A problem remains: STNil is causing crashes here and there. I don't
> understand this behaviour but it might be related to the fact, that
> STNil is located in a DLL and is allocated and stored there. Probably,
> there is read-only access to variables declared in DLLs. Is somebody else out 
> there working on a stable Windows port and
> experiencing the same problems? Having a solution?

Can you please provide GDB stack trace where it crashes? It can help.

> Versions used: gnustep 1.8.0, StepTalk 0.8.0
>
> Is somebody interested to get the whole dump? I will probably not be
> able to keep up with the speed of development of gnustep to provide
> patches.
>
>
> Alex.

Stefan
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