Tr: Re: ProjectCenter not running after install on Windows 10

[frederic-charles . gachet]

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‌Thanks for your help. Hope some Windows 10 specialist could help me.

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Envoyé: mercredi 13 Janvier 2021 17:33
De : "Fred Kiefer"
A : frederic-charles.gachet@laposte.net
Objet : Re: ProjectCenter not running after install on Windows 10

Hi Frederic,

you normally get better replies if you leave the mail on the mailing list as in that case more people will notice the issue. I did now read through the bug report you linked in your first mail (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?58837) and there it sounds as if some library file for cairo is placed in the wrong directory. That would be easy to solve but this bug report also states that this solution only worked on Windows 7. It does not mention Windows 10. As I do all my GNUstep development on Linux I am not aware what the state of MinGW support is at the moment. I remember a few people working on Msys2 support for GNUstep, which would also allow to run it at 64bit.

In the bug report #49153 Greg describes a script that does all the installation automatically. I would never trust such a script, but it may be a way for you. You will find all these scripts at https://github.com/gnustep/tools-scripts

Frederik Seiffert and Riccardo Motolla are the guys to talk to for Windows support if you face further issues.

Cheers,
Fred

> Am 13.01.2021 um 14:58 schrieb frederic-charles.gachet@laposte.net:
>
> Thank you for your quick answer.
> I did install the following sets (according to http://gnustep.org/windows/installer.html):
>
> • 01_gnustep-msys-system-0.30.0-setup
> • 02_gnustep-core-0.35.0-setup
> • 03_gnustep-devel-1.4.0-setup
> • 04_gnustep-cairo-0.35.0-setup
> • 05_ProjectCenter-0.6.2-35-setup
> • 06_gorm-1.2.23-35-setup
> In that order. I think that Cairo is on.
> Do you mean there is another tool to install ?‌
>
> De : "Fred Kiefer"
> A : frederic-charles.gachet@laposte.net,bug-gnustep@gnu.org
> Envoyé: mercredi 13 Janvier 2021 14:20
> Objet : Re: ProjectCenter not running after install on Windows 10
>
> The error message you see there means that you did not install the backend for GNUstep gui. There are two possible backends on Windows win32 and cairo. Just install the cairo backend module similar to how you did install the rest of GNUstep and try again.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Fred
>
> > Am 13.01.2021 um 11:37 schrieb frederic-charles.gachet via Bug reports for the GNUstep programming environment :
> >
> > I have installed GNUstep under Windows 10.
> > ProjectCenter and Gorm do not run.
> > Under gdb, I have the following:
> >
> > $ gdb ProjectCenter.exe
> > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.1
> > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
> > and "show warranty" for details.
> > This GDB was configured as "mingw32".
> > For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> > ...
> > Reading symbols from c:\gnustep\gnustep\system\applications\projectcenter.app\ProjectCenter.exe...done.
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: c:\gnustep\gnustep\system\applications\projectcenter.app\ProjectCenter.exe
> > [New Thread 16720.0x1de8]
> > [New Thread 16720.0xcb0]
> > warning: 2021-01-13 11:32:40.977 ProjectCenter[16720:7656] NSApplication.m:317 Assertion failed in initialize_gnustep_backend. Can't load object file from backend at path C:/GNUstep/GNUstep/System/Library/Bundles/libgnustep-cairo-025.bundle
> >
> > [Inferior 1 (process 16720) exited with code 03]
> >
> > I see Bug 58837 which seems to report such a trouble, but solution is unclear.
> >
> > Can you help me ?
> >
> > Frédéric
>