Hi, On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:35:29 am Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > On 04/18/2011 04:20 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Currently the only supported way is MinGW. > > Thanks for the information. I come to realize MinGW+GnuStep setup > doesn't have a packaging system or installer like CygWin, thus there are > two choices to get applications. > > 1. To get applications packaged in a Win32 installer. There is only > gorm, systempreferences and calculator available, a rather barren land. > > 2. To compile from source. This isn't trivial. For example, gnumail only > offer source code in form of monotone checkout, so first problem is how > to get monotone running. Many other application have source hosted on > their site, and the way to get them may change. Besides it's not sure > they will successfully be compiled, not even mentioning dependencies. you may want to take a look here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/gnustep/ Take a look into the Makefiles of the softwares, you are interested in. Also take a look at the patches in the respective subdirectories.
> > -1. Switch to cygwin. This is a dead-end at the moment. > > Both seems to be much poorer choices than FreeBSD (excluding -1). > > There is an additional choice that is also non-trivial: To run a > X-server on Windows and to install a virtual machine where FreeBSD > inside, and install application in FreeBSD, port to X-server in Windows > 2000. > > This additional choice looks only as good as falling back to FreeBSD and > tolerate 2 devices having no driver. Or you may try OpenBSD instead ;) The number of available libs/applications will grow in not too far future. I have a couple of new ports in the queue. cheers, Sebastian > > Thanks for commenting so far! _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
