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

[Fred Kiefer]

Pete French wrote:
> > I did report this a few months ago :-) Did you download the objc.dll 
> > from GNUstep.org or does cygwin finally contain one?
>
> Cygwin contains one - but it doesnt quite work with GNustep
> so I just did a make install from the libobjc in dev-libs from CVS.
> Is that code up-to-date ? I assumed so, but maybe it isnt ?

There is also a precompiled one on the GNUstep website. 
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/gnustep-objc-1.3.0.tar.gz
And libffi comes with gjc the GNUstep Java compiler. If only Cygwin 
would provide a working objc.dll...

> > 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.
>
>
> Ah, O.K. - thats interesting, because if that fixes it then maybe it
> wont be that hard to track down what is up with it (and its
> a fairly viable workaround anyway I guess). Excellent! Thanks (how did
> you nwork that one out BTW?)

Not to hard. Forking has always been the one biggest source of porting 
trouble to Windows. So I searched in the code for a way to switch it 
off. Previously you also needed to switch off forking for gdomap, but 
this was somehow fixed.

Cheers
Fred