Re: GNUstep on Cygwin

[Fred Kiefer]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I am now struggleing to get back compile as it insistes to compile xlib. 
> The problem seems to be the X installation that comes with Cygwin. I 
> will have to force the winlib evironment. It looks a bit strange to me 
> that the system automatically detects that it has to build a window 
> server, so it uses win32, but tries o combine this with xlib. But I 
> think this can be resolved with the correct configure switches, which I 
>  have to look up.

To keep you informed of my progress. Starting configure with the correct 
parameters did the trick:
configure --enable-server=win32 --enable-graphics=winlib

As Cygwin has also the ablility to compile GNUstep for the X window 
system, it is fine, that you have to specify which one you want. 
(Although I would prefer win32 as the default and the mixed state I had 
yesterday when only setting one switch was horrible)

Now I have problems with the path conversion. GNUstep make did set my 
GNUstep system directory to c:/GNUstep/System. And now applications are 
looking for the backend bundle in a directory below this. This path is 
not recognized as being an absolute one and so the loading of the 
backend bundle fails. I could of course change the setting in the 
GNUstep.sh, but as this is now a valid Cygwin path, I wanted to change 
the file handling in NSFileManager to convert this path correctly. 
Currently we only do conversions for the file names on MinGW, so I tried 
to switch the condition to #ifdef __WIN32__, but for unknown reasons 
this condition did not hold on CYGWIN. Can anybody explain this to me? 
From the gcc specs I can tell, that this define should be set.

With all this problems for cygwin I am now considering using Adams tip 
and installing GNUstep with the Windows Installer. Frustrating to fail 
even as a GNUstep developer to bootstrap GNUstep on Cygwin.

Fred