Re: gnustep on windows

[Fred Kiefer]

Enrico Sersale wrote:

> Only back gives some troubles; I've configured it with: --enable-win32
> --enable-winlib.
> I've installed libtiff and libjpeg.
> But when I try to launch an app I get:
>
> $ openapp Calculator.app
> May 04 16:12:20 Calculator.exe[1120] No classes in bundle
> May 04 16:12:20 Calculator.exe[1120] NSApplication.m:206  Assertion failed
> in initialize_gnustep_backend. Can't load backend class
> Error (objc-load):126
> c:\GNUstep\Local\Applications\Calculator.app\ix86
> \mingw32\gnu-gnu-gnu\Calculator.exe: Uncaught exception
> NSInternalInconsistencyExeption, reason: NSApplication.m:206 Assertion
> failed in initialize_gnustep_backend. Can't load backend class


This new problem is caused by the new file name handling. When loading a 
bundle the wrong file name is used as NSBundle uses cString instead of 
fileSystemRepresentation to get the file name. After fixing this (which 
I will apply later on) loading the bundle works. Still there is a big 
problem with gdomap and gdnc. It looks like all the programs started 
from GNUstep have a strange application name in the argv[0] argument. I 
will have to investigate this. Sorry for the inconvenience. Still I 
think that the changes that Richard did in this area were required, 
there just are a few places where further corrections are needed.

Cheers Fred