Re: GNUStep apps for Windows

[Alex Perez]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Adrian Robert wrote:

> >> I think it works OK for the most part. Probably the biggest thing is
> >> that it does not LOOK (or behave) like a Windows application, which
> >> might throw some people (but perhaps you don't want that anyway).
> >>
> >> As always the major obstacle in Windows is just getting it compiled 
> >> and
> >> setup in the first place.
> >>
> >
> > I personally have had *significant* trouble getting this to work.   It 
> > seems as
> > though there are lots of people who would like to get this working and 
> > I'm
> > tempted to believe (this is going to sound bad) that if I can't get it 
> > working,
> > most people can't get it working either.
> 
> Is there a reason that a binary package for GUI/Back can't be 
> distributed for Windows (aside from lack of a maintainer)?  There is a 
> Base binary package already, right?  Most cross-platform projects I 
> know tend to acknowledge that (a) compilation is naturally difficult on 
> Windows and (b) compilation-installation is not so much the norm on 
> this platform anyway, nor needed, since diversity is lower than for 
> Unix environments.  So they distribute binary packages for Windows and 
> source for everyone else.

No, there's no reason this can't be done. The windows installer does not 
include the GUI stuff as of right now simply because the kind soul who 
makes the installer for us does not personally have nay need for GUI 
support, so for him, going to thr trouble of including it and taking the 
time to compile it is not worth his time. It might be to you, and if 
that's the case, I am sure that your contribution is welcome.
> 
> If we need to bundle MinGW or Cygwin or whatever I would think this 
> could be done..
we already do that...the -base installer bundles mingw, and it gets 
installed into c:\<gnustep-install-dir\development\mingw automatically 
when you run the binary installer.

Alex Perez