Frameworks on windows.

[Jeremy Bettis]

Let me share a few ideas here before I send in a patch so I can judge the likelyhood of it being accepted.

 

Assumptions:

*) Frameworks depend heavily on symbolic links. (in gnustep-make)

*) Windows (Mingw environment) has no symbolic links

*) The Foo.framework/Versions/A/... is probably not worth supporting w/o symlinks.

*) Gcc (non-apple) doesn't support the -F or -framework options, and on windows probably never will.

 

So I have put in a number of ifeq($(HAS_LN_S),no) type statements into gnustep-make to have it simply not use the Versions stuff at all.

 

Next problem, before installation, the framework can't find it's own headers, since again the ln -s ../Foo.framework/Headers derived_sources/Headers/Foo fails.  I had a complex hack that generated an #include "../Foo.Frameworks/Headers/filename.h"for each file, but now I think a better idea would be to have the headers go into Foo.framework/Headers/Foo/filename.h right from the start.

 

If I send in a patch to do the above, in theory, would it be acceptable?