Re: GNUstep on Cygwin

[Fred Kiefer]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Did you try --with-prefix=/usr/GNUstep
>
> since Cygwin should work with that? Just wondering...

It does work with this. For me it was also sufficent to replace the 
entries in GNUstep.sh with the /cygdrive/c/... notation and then things 
worked fine. Still I think as Cygwin now supports c:\... as well, we 
need to support this in base also.

In the meantime I also did give the GNUstep MinGW installer a try and 
this works nicely for base, but has none of the libraries for gui and 
back included. So I tried to download libtiff, libjpeg and so on. I used 
the libtiff from he offical MinGW repository and this still does not 
work. As I don't have access to my mail from my window environment I 
needed to boot Linux again to find out which one to use. My impression 
here is that a Cygwin based installation is still easier. If we would 
offer an objc.dll to download all the external componentes would be 
available via the standard Cygwin installation.

But as the Cygwin environment is now soemwhat working I will try to use 
this. One of the remaining problems is that the connection to the gdnc 
cannot be found. Could anybody please look into this? One workaround for 
this has been suggested some time ago: We could add a switch to not try 
this connection. If CVS ever gets back I will add a patch for this.

Cheers
Fred