Re: GNUstep on Cygwin

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> 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

This is from the README.MinGW. I'm pretty sure these are the ones I 
have and they work...
libtiff, libjpeg, and zlib
  Needed for image handling support in the GNUstep gui libary
  (not required for GNUstep-base, though zlib can be used by the base 
library).

  Get the binary packages from -
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/tiff-3.5.7-lib.zip
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/tiff-3.5.7-bin.zip
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/libjpeg-6b-lib.zip
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/libjpeg-6b-bin.zip
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.1.4-lib.zip
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.1.4-bin.zip



> 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.
Sure. make on gnustep-objc should do it, and we could offer it on the 
ftp site.