On 29 Jan 2006, at 02:57, Stephen Sebeny wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/image_test]> openapp ImageTestApp.app
/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools/openapp: /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf:
not
found
If anyone has any idea what is causing this error in the set-up
of the
GNUSTEP stuff, or has any advice on resolving the issue, I'd really
appreciate it if you could e-mail me. I'm pretty sure its an issue
with the
GNUSTEP installation that I won't be able to resolve myself, but I
basically
need to tell the support folks exactly what they're going to need
to do as
they won't spend any time researching the issue. So any advice is
very much
appreciated.
The GNUstep make package needs to be installed correctly ... which
includes the installation of GNUstep.conf in the /etc/GNUstep
directory.
Probably this failed because /etc/GNUstep was not writable by the
user who installed GNUstep.
If they want to build from source they can configure the make and
base packages to use an alternative location for the config file, and
in fact there are loads of possibilities for customising your setup
but we would need to know exactly how things have been built/
installed to know which would be useful to you.
Most likely, on a standard installation, the config file should be
in /etc/GNUstep but the base library will have builtin default values
it can use to run if the file is not found. In this case you can
probably work around the issue of the config file not being installed
by creating your own version of the config file wherever you like,
and set the GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE environment variable to point to it
in order to get openapp to use it.
The second issue is a bit more general. After following the
tutorial
mentioned above I can see that it was meant to build a bundle based
app like
a typical GUI app on Mac OS X. However, what I really need to do
for my
project is to use the GNUSTEP GUI library from a command-line tool
type
program. I hope this is possible. I can currently build & run tools
just
fine, but if I add the include statement for the AppKit it doesn't
work. I
get linker errors basically saying that the symbols for any of the
classes
from the AppKit that I try to use aren't found. So from this I
guess it
means the makefile for tools doesn't link the AppKit. Yet the
makefile for
GUI apps makes bundle based apps. Can I get something inbetween - a
tool
that links against the AppKit?
It is possible as long as you don't use classes/methods which depend
on resources that the application expects to find in its bundle...
look in the Tools subdirectory of the gui library package for examples.
Basically your GNUmakefile.premable needs to add flags to let your
tool find the gui headers and to add '-lgnustep-gui' to the
libraries it links with.
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