Re: Success with Cygwin - except for gdnc... any ideas ?

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Pete,

your on windows now? What a surprise.

Pete French wrote:
> O.K., I happily managed to compile and cuild all the GNUstep
> bits under Cygwin without any trouble. Seems to work flawlessly
> straight out of the box, which was an unexpected surprise.

I did report this a few months ago :-) Did you download the objc.dll 
from GNUstep.org or does cygwin finally contain one?

> I am testing by runnign Ink.app - but it always complains that
> it cannt find gdnc for some reason, and tried to start a new one.
> Now gdnc is definitely running, and more start each time I
> try the App, so I am puzzled as to why the Apps cannot connect to
> them. Has anyone seen this before ? Everything else seems to
> work fine - including the backend as the Apps pop up nice little windows to
> say they cant find gdnc.

What I do is start gdnc with the option -f in a seperate cygwin shell. 
This prevents it from forking and than it seems to work. There have been 
a few patches for GNUstep base on Windows, I don't know what parts of 
them are still outstanding. As none of the GNUstep developers works 
normally on Windows, we may be a bit slow in that area.

Cheers
Fred