You probably mean GCC 4.6 :-) All the new Objective-C enhancements will be in GCC 4.6, which hasn't been released yet. Because it's not even been released yet, there aren't any smooth, ready-to-use packages or instructions for using it on Windows (yet). Windows is a difficult platform (for software originating in the Unix world).
So I'd suggest you wait a few months for it to be released. If you don't want to wait, you could obviously try compiling (or cross-compiling) GCC 4.6 yourself on MinGW, and/or use some third-party binary package if you are able to find one, but both these approaches will most likely require you to fix or hack things at one point or another. As I said, there isn't an easy, ready-to-go set of instructions for using Objective-C with GCC 4.6 on Windows yet. A relatively easy alternative (certainly easier than the above) may be to use a different, "easier" platform (eg, install some popular variant of Linux in a virtual machine ?) and then it should be much easier to find a working GCC 4.6 snapshot (or even compiling from sources) to play with (inside your Linux virtual machine). But if you're wanting to use @properties etc. in production code with GCC on Windows, basically you'll have to wait six months or so for GCC 4.6 to be released and for the release filtering down the distribution chain etc. until it just appears in MinGW as the official compiler and you can use it out-of-the-box. :-) Thanks a lot for your interest. -----Original Message----- From: "Yogesh Mujumdar" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 13 December, 2010 09:17 To: [email protected] Subject: Using GCC 4.5 on GNUStep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep Geetings, I have been trying to use properties, synthesize etc on the current windows release of GNUStep. GNUstep MSYS System Required 0.25.1<http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/gnustep-msys-system-0.25.1-setup.exe> none MSYS/MinGW System GNUstep Core Required 0.25.0<http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/gnustep-core-0.25.0-setup.exe> none GNUstep Core GNUstep Devel Optional 1.1.1<http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/gnustep-devel-1.1.1-setup.exe> None Developer Tools It looks like, the mingw compiler, which I understand is the GCC release does not support properties. GNU GCC 4.5 has support for many new Objective C features. Can somebody guide me on how to go further? - yam _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
