Re: Buidling gui and back on Windows

[Alex Perez]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Larry Cow wrote:

> Alex Perez a écrit :
> 
> >If you're using the windows GNUstep installer, use the latest -GUI 
> >release, not CVS.
> >  
> >
> Why is it? I mean, I didn't try CVS, but I can't see no reason why it 
> shouldn't work more or less like on Unix.
> 
> Are there some special win32 testing just before each release?

It's nothing specific to windows. You should just never mix a release 
-base with a cvs -GUI, or vice versa. It can potentially cause all sorts 
of nasty problems, under any OS on any platform.

> 
> >Larry, would you be willing to extend the windows installer to support 
> >-GUI? This has been an agenda item of mine but I haven't had the time, and 
> >you seem to know a lot more about GNUstep/Win32 than I do anyways.
> >  
> >
> I would be more than willing to do that (even if my top priority is 
> adding an auto-update script to the msys shell), but I fear I have no 
> time for at least one month or two. And I can't even be sure that I will 
> have time later: this is how things goes when you reache the end of your 
> studies.

Well I would love to see this happen, it would bring a lot of potential 
macheads who have voiced their interest in developing the win32 backend 
but who do not want to go through the hell of installing all this crap 
under win32 which is required to make GNUstep work there with the GUI 
currently.

> 
> >You also need to soure GNUstep.sh before GNUstep-make will work and you 
> >can compile things using it. I'm not sure if the msys shell does that for 
> >you automatically.
> >  
> >
> I don't remember it's needed. Running gdomap and friends was enough, for me.
> 
> But it's nice to see more people interested in improving GNUstep on win32 ;)

the gdomap dependency can be removed for GNUstep by setting a default. 
This is thanks to Alexander Malmberg's work, and maybe we could look into 
enabling it by default under win32 only. Alex?


Cherers,
Alex Perez