Re: GNUstep app fails on Ubuntu 16

[Johannes Brakensiek]

Hi Andreas,

On 6 May 2020, at 13:35, Andreas Höschler via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment wrote:

I have done

apt-get install wdm
apt-get install wmaker
reboot

on a fresh Ubuntu (server) install but did not get any graphical login!? :-(

it might be that wdm is a little too old to have a good configuration packaged. Trying to add xorg is a good idea of course. I had good results using lightdm under Debian. Installing GNUstep should be as easy as

sudo apt install wmaker lightdm gnustep gnustep-devel
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM (same should apply for Ubuntu)

This should pull in all of the required dependencies. But as of 16.04 the gnustep packages are quite old probably.

If you want to try a recent GNUstep build on top of Ubuntu 16.04 using the GNUstep runtime you might want to try this one using the default clang (using GNUstep runtime version 1.9):

https://github.com/plaurent/gnustep-build/blob/master/ubuntu-16.04-clang-6.0-runtime-1.9/GNUstep-buildon-ubuntu1604.sh

Or this one, which installs clang 9 before and installs runtime version 2.0:
https://github.com/plaurent/gnustep-build/blob/master/ubuntu-16.04-clang-9.0-runtime-2.0-ARM/GNUstep-buildon-ubuntu1604_arm.sh

You might have to adopt the latter one a little because it is meant for the aarch64 version of Ubuntu 16.04 and installs the corresponding clang/llvm (in cause you are using a different platform).

Before using the scripts X11 and a window manager should be up and running.

Good luck
Johannes