> On 3 Nov 2015, at 22:58, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Guys! > > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: >> Riccardo has an older Raspberry Pi and is not sure about preparing stuff on >> an SD card, but I have ordered a Raspberry Pi 2, which should be delivered >> today, and be waiting for me when I get home tomorrow. >> Obviously it will take me a while to familiarise myself with it, but with >> Riccardo’s help, I’d expect to be able to build GNUstep for it by the end of >> the week. >> So you don’t need to contact him directly (unless you wish to of course), >> and you don’t need to do anything yourself, though you may want to >> browsewww.gnustep.org and alsowww.nongnu.org/gap/ (a collection of apps >> which aren’t part of the gnustep project, but are written for gnustep) > > I have the orignal raspberry Pi and GNUstep runs quite wll on it. I don't > know how the situation with the new one is, but mine could be ordered with a > SD Card which auto-installed the operating system of choice (at first boot it > had some sort of chooser). > I don't know if just "cloning" my card would be a good idea, especially since > your hardware is different. > The operating system I have is Raspbian, a special port of Debian, what do > you have? > > Let me note what I did for current GNUstep, it might help you and Richard. > I installed GCC and all the basic required dependencies (libxml, ffi, graphic > libraries for gui like jpg, gif, tiff, png, cairo) > > make configure: > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep --with-layout=gnustep > > (for a total NeXT/Mac experience, make prefix=/ ) > > base configure: > ./configure --disable-icu > > (perhaps ICU was available, I just wanted a smaller system and we do > reasonably well without) > > gui configure: no additional parameters > back configure: no additional parameters > > That is just enough... I built GWorkspace, Ink & Terminal without any > problems and they appear to run. I will do further experiments the coming > weeks.
That’s almost exactly what I did with my new Raspberry Pi 2 today. Like you, I disabled icu, though I built with the fhs filesystem layout rather than the traditional one. I built and ran GWorkspace and Gorm I also tried installing the rasspbian package for the WindowMaker mindow manager which, while not GNUstep, does at least provide a consistent look. Unfortunately it seems to draw icons incorrectly on my display, so may not be worth bothering with. There’s a screenshot (GWorkspace and Gorm, suing the default window manager, not wmaker) at https://plus.google.com/communities/102254155337478651472 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
