GNUstep on win32: compile and link issues

[Mike Powell]

Hello, first time post...

I write win32 C++ code would like to learn the feel of objective-C and the 
NextStep Framework.  After a day of surfing, downloading, compiling and 
installing GNUstep-base-1.10.1-gui-0.9.4.exe, I understand the basics of 
building GNUstep based applications on the win32+mingw platform and can compile 
and link many of the example GUI programs found in gnustep-examples-1.0.0.  I 
cannot, however, get either Gorm 0.9.2 or ProjectCenter 0.4.2 to link due to 
dllwrap.exe and/or dlltool.exe (I think). Please see compiler output at the end 
of this post for details related to my attempt to compile and link Gorm.

Question 1: Has has anyone gotten either Gorm or ProjectCenter to compile and 
run in the new win32 base-1.10.1+gui-0.9.4 environment?

Question 2: I notice there is recent win32 development activity.  Should 
potential win32 users and wanna-be developers just hold tight?

Thanks, GNUstep on win32 looks very promising.

Mike
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References:

1) Info regarding dllwrap.exe and dlltool.exe

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnustep/2004-12/msg00021.html
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/README.dllhelpers-0.2.5.txt
http://www.willus.com/mingw/yongweiwu_stdcall.html

2) Compiler output using GNUstep-base-1.10.1-gui-0.9.4.exe with mingw on WinXP, 
SP1:

Making all in GormLib...
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/gnustep/Development/Source/Gorm-0.9.0/GormLib'
Making all for library libGorm...
 Linking library libGorm ...
./shared_obj/IBInspector.o(.text+0xee):IBInspector.m: undefined reference to 
`_imp__IBWillCloseDocumentNotification'
c:\GNUstep\Development\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\dllwrap.exe: gcc exited with status 1
make[2]: *** [shared_obj/Gorm.dll] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libGorm.all.library.variables] Error 2

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