Re: Suggestions for deploying an application ?

[Marc Ordinas i Llopis]

gerold wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 16:57, Pete French wrote:
>
> > Just as a matter for discussion - what do people think is the best way
> > to deploy a GNUstep application to Windows users ?
> >
> > So far I have come up with three options:
> >
> > 1) Try and compile and run the application using the Windows backend for
> >   GNUstep. This is my least favourite as (to date) I have never managed to
> >   get a working GNustep installation on Windows.
Have you tried the Windows installer? You can find it here: 
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/windows/

> > 3) Install Cygwin/X11 onto the Windows machines and compile up a complete
> >   GNUstep installation on each of them to run the application locally.
> >   I have only just though of this, and it looks quite appealing....
I have found it much, much easier to compile GNUstep with Mingw (that 
is, directly to Win32) than to Cygwin. In fact, after two weeks trying I 
 just went back to mingw.

> > Any sugggestions ? Currently I am trying to be as open minded as possible
> > about the best solution.
We use GNUstep apps on windows. There's still a lot of room for 
improvement, specially on multithreading and in the backend, but it's 
mostly usable. Make sure to apply M.A. Garcias' patches for the backend.

Marc Ordinas i Llopis
Tragnarion Studios