Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Matt Rice]

On 2007-02-10 20:46:30 -0800 Christopher Armstrong 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Considering some of the effort needed to get pkg-config working on
> Windows, could we please maintain all existing build methods in
> gnustep-make? IMHO pkg-config still feels like a alpha quality 
> programme
> in some environments, despite being widely used. The classic
> gnustep-make build environment is still my first choice and is alot
> easier to install as it has no unusual or difficult dependencies.

Yes somewhere in this thread backwards compatibility with old 
GNUstep-makes was
discussed and it was stated that one could add

GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES ?= $(shell pkg-config --variables=makefiles)
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

and create makefiles which work with old GNUstep-makes which weren't
pkg-config enabled this same mechanism can be used to subvert the
pkg-config dependency by manually setting GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES
or sourcing GNUstep.sh

Anyhow now we have gnustep-config.sh which works similarly to 
pkg-config without the optional
dependency...

Its definately up in the air though whether this will become a 
recommended addition to
GNUmakefiles or not...

> Lastly, on a slightly unrelated note, the GNU dependencies (zlib,
> libpng, libjpeg, etc) that are needed to compile GNUstep on Windows 
> can
> be automated using an installer from the gnuwin32.sf.net project which
> downloads most of the precompiled GNU environment. I was thinking that
> it may be possible to take the scripts given there, combine them with
> scripts for installing mingw/msys and create an installable mingw
> environment on Windows that is ready to compile source code within.
>
> Regards
> Chris