Re: How is the best way to setup a gnustep project center / gorm development environment ?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Rose,

On 2012-08-14 17:23:36 +0200 Rose Bust <rosebust@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a learning environment where I can work through 
> the 
> developer documents on from the gnustep website to get a better feel 
> for 
> developing gnustep GUI apps.  I  have some experience developing 
> under xcode.
> A fresh install of gnustep, project center and gorm on both windows 
> xp and 
> ubuntu (from binaries windows install executable and apt-get on 
> ubuntu) does 
> not result in project center able to build simple template 
> applications it 
> creates from a new project selection from its menu.  I can build the 
> application by running make from the command line but this sorta 
> defeats the 
> reason to use an IDE such as project center.  Also just changing the 
> project 
> centers preferences for the location of make didn't fix this issue.
This smells as a problem with the Ubuntu packages.

The window packages are known to be problematic, but as far as I 
remember, Adam just updated them, so everything should work. Latest 
project center and Gorm do work under windos, although it is a 
suboptimal target platform to develop on. I suggest to work under unix 
and then test and compile under windows if you wish to targed that 
platform. I do that. And at best, everything is generated under unic 
and ou just need a "make"

> So.. What is the best way to set up a new installation gnustep such 
> that 
> project center and gorm just work together as they appear that they 
> are 
> designed to do?  Is there an earlier release of gnustep where this is 
> not a 
> problem?
The latest releases should do. You might want to install  everything 
from source. Or just install the gnustep core from the packages 
(windows or ubuntu) and then install the applications. I do that 
sometimes.

A very quick option would be to try a VM. We offer a ready image with 
the tools configurated that work, thants to Richard's work:
http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-VM-0.9/

it is not th latest stuff anymore, but it should work out of the box 
and give you the tools to work. Also, it is a reference on how to 
configure things to get it working, in csase you want to try some 
do-it-yourself.

Riccardo