Installation on Windows
Install MinGW
Download MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3 or later from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw Install it into
C:/xxx/msys/1.0/mingw
(where /xxx/ is the top-level path you want to use, I use Nicola/GNUstep so I install it into C:/Nicola/GNUstep/msys/1.0/mingw) (earlier versions of MinGW won't work)
Install msys
Download MSYS-1.0.10 or later from the same site. Install it into C:/xxx/msys/1.0 The postinstall script should ask you for the mingw location, then detect it and be happy that it's there and all is setup properly.
Install msys developer toolkit
Download msysDTK-1.0.1 or later from the same site. Install it into
C:/xxx/msys/1.0
Now your MSYS/MinGW system should be setup! Go around and make sure you know how to use the Unix-like shell. Log into it and work in it.
Download gnustep using cvs
Install GNUstep make
go in core/make and do
./configure --prefix=/C/xxx/GNUstep make make install
Setup your GNUstep environment
(you will need to do the same every time you start up your MSYS shell to do development)
. /C/xxx/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
Also, set HOMEPATH, HOMEDRIVE and HOME ... add the following lines to your ~/.profile:
export HOMEDRIVE=C: export HOMEPATH=/home/Nicola export HOME=/C/xxx/msys/1.0/home/Nicola . /C/xxx/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
(obviously replacing 'Nicola' with your Login name) (not sure if this setting of HOMEDRIVE etc is really required, will investigate)
Install the ObjC runtime
Actually, recent versions of gcc (3.2+) have a working libobjc on Windows. Nevertheless this step is necessary (at least on Windows 2000) unless you want some strange errors concerning NSAutoreleasePool etc.
First make sure to delete the old libobjc files
find /C/xxx/GNUstep/ -iname "libobjc*" -exec rm -i {} \;
Then cd to dev-libs/libobjc in your cvs checkout directory and install it.
make make install
Reinstall GNUstep make (with ObjC this time)
go in core/make and reconfigure/recompile again so that gnustep-objc is detected:
make distclean ./configure make make install
gnustep-make should have detected your custom libobjc.
Install ffcall
Download ffcall from the GNUstep website, or from here: ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz, and type:
./configure --prefix=$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT make make install
Note: The configure script of ffcall-1.10 is broken for Windows 2000. You have to apply a patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2005-03/msg00258.html
Alternatively, a zip containing a precompiled copy of ffcall-1.9 is availabe here: ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/mingw-libs/ffcall-1.9-gnustep.zip
Unzip it into $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library.
Install additional libs
Download the following packages:
libintl-0.11.5-2-bin.zip libintl-0.11.5-2-lib.zip
libiconv-1.8.1-bin.zip libiconv-1.8.1-lib.zip
zlib-1.2.2-bin.zip zlib-1.2.2-lib.zip
from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net, and install them. To install them, simply unzip them into
/C/xxx/msys/1.0/mingw.
Install XML support
XML support not working yet, step omitted
Install GNUstep base
go in gnustep-base, and type
./configure --disable-xml make make install
Install additional GUI libs
for the gui, download and install the following packages:
jpeg-6b-3-bin.zip jpeg-6b-3-dep.zip jpeg-6b-3-lib.zip
tiff-3.7.1-bin.zip tiff-3.7.1-dep.zip tiff-3.7.1-lib.zip
libpng-1.2.8-bin.zip libpng-1.2.8-dep.zip libpng-1.2.8-lib.zip
The process is always the same: download the zip file from the gnuwin32 website, then unzip them into
/C/xxx/msys/1.0/mingw.
Install GNUstep gui
go in the gui, and type:
./configure make make install
Install GNUstep back
go in back, and type:
./configure make make install
Check the installation
go in a simple gui application (examples/gui a very good starting point), compile and run it. :-)
based on a mail from Nicola Pero