GNUstep Windows Installer

I've updated the Windows installer.  Now the system and
depend  
installers are combined into one.  So you only need to
install two  
installers to get GNUstep working.

http:/
/www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html

I also added a Gorm.app installer.  I'll get more as I have
time  
(suggestions?).  It's also easy to create your own
installers - I've  
added a nsis.make file to gnustep-make to automatically
create  
installers for applications (unfortunately it's currently
only in  
SVN, not in any release and not in the Windows
installation).


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Adam Fedor wrote:
> I've updated the Windows installer.  Now the system and
depend
> installers are combined into one.  So you only need to
install two
> installers to get GNUstep working.
> 
> http:/
/www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html
> 
> I also added a Gorm.app installer.  I'll get more as I
have time
> (suggestions?).  It's also easy to create your own
installers - I've
> added a nsis.make file to gnustep-make to automatically
create
> installers for applications (unfortunately it's
currently only in SVN,
> not in any release and not in the Windows
installation).

I know, I am a bit late to comment on this, but I only got
round to test
the new installer the day before.

The installer itself works perfectly. It is only when
downloading
GNUstep from SVN and trying to compile that when the trouble
starts. As
I don't see this as an too unusual step, we should try to
smooth this out.

make:
The Readme.MINGW file and the GNUstep on Windows Wiki page
(http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_on_Windo
ws) suggest to
use ./configure --with-layout=fhs, but you seem to have used
./configure
--prefix=/GNUstep. I don't mind either of them, but we
should be
consistent. Otherwise people end up with two GNUstep
installations.

base:
It looks like the xml2-config script in the mingw/bin
directory is not
set up correctly. Changing its first variable to point to
the real
directory (I think it was just /mingw) solves the problem.

gui:
Here a problem with the type boolean that gets defined in
two imported
header files needs to be resolved. I worked around this by
hacking in a
#define boolean JPEG_BOOL into the libjpeg.h file.

After all that I still have problem starting up an
application. This is
caused by gui not finding the backend. I expect that this is
caused by
some unusual language settings (German) on my computer. At
least this is
the only hint I get from GNUstep. I report back on that
issue as soon as
I find out more.


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Fred Kiefer wrote:
> After all that I still have problem starting up an
application. This is
> caused by gui not finding the backend. I expect that
this is caused by
> some unusual language settings (German) on my computer.
At least this is
> the only hint I get from GNUstep. I report back on that
issue as soon as
> I find out more.
> 

I just found out what was causing my remaining problems. My
self
compiled GNUstep could not find a suitable GNUstep.conf
file. It is, by
default, ignoring the environment variable pointing to one,
but looks
for one in /GNUstep/System/Tools. After putting a
GNUstep.conf file
there and changing all the path to Window standard
(C:/GNUstep....) it
works now.

My next problem is that my application segmentation faults.
But from
here on it really is my problem. I just downloaded gdb for
MinGW and
will start debugging. Why isn't gdb already included in the
system
installation? I'm surely not the only programmer that needs
a debugger
from time to time.





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On Dec 28, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

>
> make:
> The Readme.MINGW file and the GNUstep on Windows Wiki
page
> (http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_on_Windo
ws) suggest to
> use ./configure --with-layout=fhs, but you seem to have
used ./ 
> configure
> --prefix=/GNUstep. I don't mind either of them, but we
should be
> consistent. Otherwise people end up with two GNUstep
installations.
>
Yes.  There is no native layout in Windows (At least not
that a  
normal Windows user is aware of), so the GNUstep layout is
probably  
the best.



> base:
> It looks like the xml2-config script in the mingw/bin
directory is not
> set up correctly. Changing its first variable to point
to the real
> directory (I think it was just /mingw) solves the
problem.
>
That's probably because I cross-compiled everything to save
time.  I  
really haven't tested out compiling things on Windows except
for some  
simple stuff.  I should probably test that more.


> gui:
> Here a problem with the type boolean that gets defined
in two imported
> header files needs to be resolved. I worked around this
by hacking  
> in a
> #define boolean JPEG_BOOL into the libjpeg.h file.
>
> After all that I still have problem starting up an
application.  
> This is
> caused by gui not finding the backend. I expect that
this is caused by
> some unusual language settings (German) on my computer.
At least  
> this is
> the only hint I get from GNUstep. I report back on that
issue as  
> soon as
> I find out more.
>
>
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