Darryl,
We are taking a look at adding the option to install on Cygwin back into GNUstep (it previously worked). :) In the meantime you might be interested in the MinGW installers here: http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html#windows The installers should install a basic MinGW system and gnustep core which will allow you to run any programs you like. Thank you for your feedback and your interest in GNUstep. Thanks, Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc # GNUstep Chief Maintainer ________________________________ From: Darryl Agostinelli <dagostine...@gmail.com> To: gnustep-dev@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:08:44 PM Subject: CYGWIN Problems Hi, I'm having some trouble getting GNUStep to work on CygWin. Then I found out that it's not officially supported. I'm sad. So, this is a plea email. Here's my basic case... Apple has popularized Obj-C and I'd really like to learn it now. But I'm a PC user and don't much want to buy a Mac. Cygwin is the saving grace. I also know about the MiniGW environment, but my very simple Obj-C apps don't work in MiniGW! (i.e. Hello World) Anyhow, I use Cygwin for lots of other stuff and I'm sure others out there do too. So I'm hoping that since Apple is popularizing Obj-C, maybe there will be more PC people like me interested in learning it. And maybe we can kindly pressure your esteemed group to support our favorite unix-like environment for the PC: Cygwin. There are all kinds of problems with trying to use GNUStep on CygWin. Here's a short list: 1) It takes millennia to figure out all the dependencies -- I ran Cygwin setup a dozen times every time I discovered 1 or 2 more. 2) gnustep-startup-0.20.1 has this progressive_mode problem with libJpeg. I see that gnustep-gui-0.16.0 doesn't have that problem, but it's not in gnustep-startup-0.20.1. 3) So I tried to fake out gnustep-startup-0.20.1, by putting in the tar ball for gnustep-gui-0.16.0 and getting rid of the one that comes with gnustep-startup-0.20.1, but that didn't work. I got some error about "VERSIONS" not being found (see attached log) 4) I also tried to run ./configure on the individual packages like gnustep-gui-0.16.0, but it complains that it can't find install-sh. "make" doesn't work because it can't find stuff that needs to be created by ./configure. I blew hours on this stuff. Anyhow, I'd love to use your system on Cygwin if you'll be so kind as to make it work well on that. Very kind regards and happy holidays to you all, -D
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