Lars, Thanks for the idea. I also crossposted in Ladybird reddit for increased visibility.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ladybird/ Joseph Maloney Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email. On Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 at 3:00 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > this is a great achievement! You might want to post it here > https://www.reddit.com/r/gnustep/ too! > > kind regards, > > Lars > >> Am 31.12.2025 um 21:16 schrieb Joseph Maloney <[email protected]>: >> >> This is early work. I wanted to share because of just how seriously cool and >> exciting I think this is for a couple of reasons. I had some success in >> modifying the build system for ladybird, and it's AppKit implementation to >> support GNUstep. You can find instructions confirmed to work for Debian 13 >> Trixie in my ticket here as well as current status: >> >> https://github.com/pkgdemon/ladybird/issues/1 >> >> I have been starting to reach out to them to see how I can get a more >> finished version integrated with working CI into the ladybird project. I >> have not had any response yet from the GitHub ticket alone, but I will keep >> trying other methods as it progresses. >> >> Some of the highlights of this approach I think are they can build macOS and >> GNUstep with the same code base using most of the same APIs. I am making >> conditionals for the differences. Like macOS which takes 20 minutes to >> build, my RPI 500+ running Trixie also takes 20 minutes to build. I wiped >> the GitHub repo to confirm and rebuilt from scratch. Unless I am mistaken >> and it is caching somewhere else compare that to 3+ hours to build the QT >> version! >> >> Joseph Maloney >> >> Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email.
