GNUstep on Cygwin

[Fred Kiefer]

The current discussion about GNUstep on Windows made me curious, so I 
started up my XP and downloaded cygwin. This has improved much over the 
past year, they now have support for objc and if you install the gcc for 
java you even get libffi. So I tried to use this directly and make and 
base where easy to compile, as every needed package was already included.
But I was to optimistic here, as things compiled, but did not work, 
which only showed up at the end of the compilation of gui. Something is 
broken in base, as even simple programms as plparse.exe complain that 
the cannot find the class NSProcessInfo. As this is the first class 
loaded from the gnustep-base.dll I expect that this DLL cannot be loaded 
for some reason. There is no clue of the cause, but based on previous 
experiance with windows I would expect that some required DLL cannot be 
loaded. So I only have to find out which one, and here I am stuck. Does 
anybody have an idea on how to investigate into this? I remember having 
tools on my old machine that did show he exports and imports of DLLs. 
But this was so long ago that I don't have any memory where this did 
come from.

Cheers
Fred