Re: gnustep on cygwin

[Gregory Casamento]

Pirmin,

A long time ago GNUstep did work on Cygwin, but fell into disuse and
has fallen behind because no one is currently maintaining it.

Since your company is doing a large port, would they be willing to
help us get GNUstep working on Cygwin again and contribute those
changes back to the project?

If so that would help both the GNUstep project and your company.   I
and others would be glad to advise you on how to make this happen.

Thanks, GC

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Pirmin Braun <pb@seat-1.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get gnustep-base working on the latest stable release of
> cygwin and applied  yselkowitz's patches to gnustep-make.2.4 as
> appropriate. But no luck:
> gnustep-base 1.20.1 compiles fine, my little NSLog(@"hello
> world") test program (a tool), too. But it crashes with seg fault. It
> works on mingw and Linux. I've tried all sorts of gcc and
> ffi and objc runtimes, but no luck.
> So please, can you give me some advice:
> - which gcc to use in cygwin?
> - ffcall or ffi? cygwin version or this extra gnustep.org
> libffi-gcc4.2.2 version?
> - is this gnustep-objc-1.6.0 still necessary? It doesn't
> compile with newer gcc 4.5 btw.
> - any secret configuration options?
> - threading model POSIX ok?
>
> Since we're about to port a big project with Linux
> dependencies, mingw  is not an option.
>
> --
> mit freundlichen Gruessen/best regards
>
> Pirmin Braun
>
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