Is there any tutorial or howto on getting Qt/QMLto work/integrate with
gnutep?
Thanks,
Bob
On 7/26/2021 5:18 AM, Frederik Seiffert wrote:
Am 26.07.2021 um 09:33 schrieb Bob Plymale <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Success!
I was able to install, configure, compile a small program.
Nice, that’s great!
Questions.
1. I am new to Windows so is it customary to include the dll's (I do
not see static lib's) with the program? On Mac I either include
static lib's or the shared dll's and copy it to the program directory.
Yes you’ll have to distribute the DLLs alongside your EXE. Static
linking is not permitted by the LGPL.
2. To confirm the only frameworks available are GNUstep Base Library
(Foundation) and
GNUstep CoreBase Library (CoreFoundation).
That’s correct as of now.
3. How do you handle the GUI part of the app if it is not a console
only app?
In our project we use Qt/QML for the UI layer on Windows and Android,
which integrates nicely using some glue classes that allow us to bind
QML elements directly to our ObjC model via KVO.
That being said, I think it shouldn’t be too involved to get
gnustep-gui and -back working with the MSVC toolchain. The main thing
that needs to be done is annotate all classes with GS_EXPORT_CLASS,
and probably some tweaks in Autoconf, mirroring the changes done in Base:
https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/commit/61709e6101b0d6dbb702471a5e36f3280e642dc0
<https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/commit/61709e6101b0d6dbb702471a5e36f3280e642dc0>
Apart from that we’ll also need to add any dependencies like libtiff
to the scripts. I’d very much like to get the complete GNUstep stack
working with this setup, and hopefully will be able to spend some time
working on it soon, but please feel free to take a look if you want to
jump right in.
Frederik
