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'''Note''': Anyone know how to convert [http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/gnustep-howto_toc.html Platform Compatibility HowTO] source into wiki language, so we can work on others' effort?
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Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.<br>
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Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.
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* You may also want to take a look at the [[dependencies]].
  
  
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= BSD-based systems =
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To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can [[Platform:BSD|be found here]].
  
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=== AIX ===
 
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''To be provided.''
 
  
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= HP/UX  =
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=== BSD ===
 
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==== Darwin-based Systems ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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===== Intel =====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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===== PowerPC =====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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==== FreeBSD-based Systems ====
 
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===== DesktopBSD =====
 
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[http://desktopbsd.sourceforge.net/ DesktopBSD] joins the ranks of PC-BSD and FreeSBIE as a desktop-ready version of FreeBSD. However, their desktop is based on [http://www.kde.org KDE].
 
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===== DragonFly =====
 
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[http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/ DragonFly] is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the [[Platform_compatibility#FreeBSD|FreeBSD]]-4.x OS series.
 
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I have mostly ported GNUstep to DragonFly, I just need to submit patches now for both GNUstep and DragonFly. To know more, you can contact me. ''[[user:Qmathe | Quentin Mathé]]''
 
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===== FreeBSD =====
 
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You can install GNUstep via ''/usr/ports/devel/gnustep''. However, not all required dependencies are installed.
 
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If you install the following in advance, you should be fine: ''[http://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/windowmaker/ wmaker], [http://www.freshports.org/textproc/libxml2/ libxml2], [http://www.freshports.org/textproc/libxslt/ libxslt], [http://www.freshports.org/math/libgmp4/ libgmp4], [http://www.freshports.org/graphics/libart_lgpl2/ libart_lgpl2], [http://www.freshports.org/audio/libaudiofile/ libaudiofile], [http://www.freshports.org/audio/portaudio/ portaudio], [http://www.freshports.org/devel/ffcall ffcall], [http://www.freshports.org/graphics/glitz/ glitz]''
 
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''[http://www.freshports.org/print/cups/ CUPS]'' is used for printing functionality. OTOH, it is a good idea to go for [http://www.freshports.org/net/samba/ Samba] directly, which also includes CUPS.
 
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Additionally, you may also want to install ''[http://www.freshports.org/net/mDNSResponder/ mDNSResponder]''.
 
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'''Note''':
 
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There is a bug in libkvm that '''requires''' a mounted ''/proc''. Until this bug is fixed, make sure you have an entry for ''/proc'' in your ''/etc/fstab'':
 
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proc                    /proc          procfs  rw              0      0
 
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References:
 
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[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=gnustep&stype=all FreeBSD GNUstep ports],
 
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[http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=gnustep&search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive Freshports GNUstep]
 
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===== FreeBSD-Kernel w/ GNU userland =====
 
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It was reported that this runs GNUstep as well. For more details see the topic of
 
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the IRC channel #gnu-kbsd on irc.gnu.org
 
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===== FreeSBIE =====
 
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[http://www.freesbie.org/ FreeSBIE] is a Live-CD Version of FreeBSD.
 
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===== PicoBSD =====
 
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[http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html PicoBSD] is a one floppy version of [[Platform_compatibility#FreeBSD|FreeBSD]] 3.0-current. You won't be able to use it as a platform for GNUstep.
 
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===== PC-BSD =====
 
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[http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD] has as its goals to be an easy to install and use desktop OS, which is built on the [[Platform_compatibility#FreeBSD|FreeBSD]] operating system.
 
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==== Mac OS X ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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==== NetBSD ====
 
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Installing GNUstep from pkgsrc is really straight-forward for NetBSD if you're using a recent pkgsrc distribution. NetBSD/i386 has no known problems right now, however there are reports of crashout problems for gdomap on NetBSD/sparc which may be related to ffi/ffcall issues.
 
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In terms of pre-requisites, ensure you've got a working X11 environment on your system and preferrably are using WindowMaker as your window manager.
 
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'''Build instructions'''
 
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To install GNUstep, you need to cd to your pkgsrc tree and then cd to the right package directory, on my system:
 
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  cd /usr/pkgsrc
 
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then go to the package you wish to install, for example:
 
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  cd meta-pkgs/gnustep
 
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and issue the command:
 
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  make install
 
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This command will download source code and whatever dependencies and compile and install them. The version of the meta-packages I used (released with NetBSD 2.0 and called gnustep-1.10.0nb2) installs the following GNUstep components as parts of the meta-package:
 
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* gnustep-make-1.10.0
 
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* gnustep-base-1.10.1
 
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* gnustep-ssl-1.10.1
 
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* gnustep-gui-0.9.4
 
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* gnustep-back-0.9.4
 
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* gnustep-examples-1.0.0
 
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* ImageViewer-0.6.3
 
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* Pantomime-1.1.2
 
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* Addresses-0.4.6
 
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* GNUMail-1.1.2
 
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* Gorm-0.8.0
 
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* ProjectCenter-0.4.0
 
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* GWLib-0.6.5
 
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* Renaissance-0.8.0
 
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* gworkspace-0.6.5
 
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A number of dependency packages are also installed.
 
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This may be overkill - if you don't need all the applications etc, you can install the packages individually.
 
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==== OpenBSD ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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=== GNU/Hurd ===
 
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GNUstep also runs on GNU/Hurd on the GNUMach kernel.
 
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=== HP/UX  ===
 
 
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW/References_Manual#GNUstep_and_CPAM. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.
 
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW/References_Manual#GNUstep_and_CPAM. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.
  
  
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= Linux-based systems =
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To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can [[Platform:Linux|be found here]].
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=== Irix ===
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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=== Linux ===
 
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==== Debian ====
 
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Since Debian "Sarge" you can just say
 
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apt-get install x-window-system-core wmaker gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games
 
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to get GNUstep, X11 and Window Maker installed.
 
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But what happen if you are on Debian stable (3.0) release ?
 
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Here is an answer from gnustep irc channel:
 
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<fsmunoz> change every occurence of "stable" for "testing"
 
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<fsmunoz> remove the security.debian.org line
 
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<fsmunoz> do apt-get update
 
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<fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 
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<fsmunoz> repeat  this last one until nothing gets installed or removed.
 
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<fsmunoz> the, replace "testing" with "unstable"
 
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<fsmunoz> then, apt-get update
 
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<fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 
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<fsmunoz> repeat, repeat.
 
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<fsmunoz> done
 
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The above was a general guide to upgrade from Debian stable to unstable, not exactly the best way to install GNUstep packages. If one doesn't want to upgrade it is possible to simply add the unstable apt lines to the sources.list and specify the distribution when installing the packages, e.g.
 
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</pre>
 
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This will probably upgrade some other packages to satisfy dependencies, but will have a much small impact on the system since only the packages on which GNUstep depends will be upgraded.
 
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Yet another way is to add tarzeau's repository (powerpc and source); he packages a huge ammount of GNUstep packages. Just add this to your sources.list:
 
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deb http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian/ ./ 
 
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deb-src http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian/ ./
 
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</pre>
 
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This repository contains packages made in unstable, so it's possible that the dependencies only are satisfied in unstable systems.
 
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==== RedHat ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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===== Advance Server 3.0 =====
 
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* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.
 
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==== Slackware ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
  
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= Solaris =
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''To be provided.''
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Take a look at the required and recommended [[dependencies]]. Most of these can be found at [http://www.blastwave.org/ BlastWave] (which I personally recommend) or [http://www.sunfreeware.com/ Sun Freeware].
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The notable exception are [http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html ffcall]/[http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/ libffi], [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/ Bonjour] and [http://www.portaudio.com/ portaudio] (as of 2008-05-23).
  
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If you plan on compiling those from source, make sure to enable the creation of SHARED libraries. ''Bonjour'' and ''ffcall'' compile right out of the box. For ''portaudio'' to compile, you will need to grab a daily-snapshot and you need to install [http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/osndsys Open Sound System headers].
  
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=== Solaris ===
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Then, if you follow the installation instructions for GNUstep, you should not run into any problems.
  
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=== Intel ===
  
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==== Intel ====
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''Intentionally left blank''.
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''To be provided.''
 
  
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==== Sparc ====
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=== Sparc ===
  
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* http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/solaris is one of package sources to create solaris packages for GNUstep.
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* http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/solaris is one of package sources to create Solaris packages for GNUstep.
 
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.
 
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.
  
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=== GNUstep Solaris 10 U2 vmware appliance ===
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=== Windows ===
 
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==== Cygwin ====
 
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''To be provided.''
 
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==== MingW ====
 
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Microsfot's Service For Unix.
 
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=== Others ===
 
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==== LiveCD for Intel ====
 
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Find the instructions to install and the CD itself [http://livecd.gnustep.org/ here]
 
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==== Linksys NSLU2 ====
 
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* First thing need to happen is to gnerate a gcc cross compiler with objc enabled.
 
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* check out unslung source using follow command.
 
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nslu co unslung
 
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* add in objc as language need to be enabled.
 
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perl -pi -e 's!^GCC_LANGUAGES=.*!GCC_LANGUAGES="c,c++,objc"!' toolchain/crosstool/nslu2-cross335.sh
 
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* [http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp Download sol u2 image], you need to have a Sun site account.
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tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ pwd
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* You can run this image in VMware server or VMware player 1.0.3.
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/home/tjyang/unslung
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* Install Sun Studio 11 with latest patches.
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tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ rm toolchain/crosstool/.configured
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* Objective Compiler
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tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ rm toolchain/crosstool/.built
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** compile your own
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tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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** get it from [http://www.blastwave.org/ BlastWave] using pkg-get.
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tjyang@debian:~/unslung$make toolchain
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* download all the GNUstep tar balls and follow build instruction.
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</pre>
 
  
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* A arm gcc with objective-C enabled.
 
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/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/bin/armv5b-softfloat-linux-gcc -v
 
  
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Reading specs from /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/lib/gcc-lib/armv5b-softfloat-linux/3.3.5/specs
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= OpenSolaris =
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Configured with: /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/crosstool/build/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/gcc-3.3.5/configure --target=armv5b-softfloat-linux --host=i686-host_pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5 --with-float=soft --with-cpu=xscale --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=xscale --with-headers=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux/include --with-local-prefix=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++,objc --enable-shared --enable-c99 --enable-long-long
 
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Thread model: posix
 
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gcc version 3.3.5
 
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[tjyang@dual unslung]$
 
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** A simple test of objc on host linux machine.
 
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  <pre>
 
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  [tjyang@dual bin]$ pwd
 
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  /home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux/bin
 
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  #include <stdio.h>
 
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  [tjyang@dual bin]$ ./gcc helloworld.m -lobjc -o helloworld
 
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  hellow: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for GNU/Linux 2.4.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
 
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  Linux dual 2.4.21-9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 17:08:56 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
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  [tjyang@dual bin]$
 
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  </pre>
 
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** Second step is to use this cross-compiler which generate binaries code for armb cpu to compile a native compiler. This complier can only be run on native machine nslu2 not on Intel linux.
 
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<pre>
 
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[tjyang@dual unslung]$ make crosstool-native;make crosstool-native-ipk
 
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[tjyang@dual unslung]$ ls -lrt builds/*.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang    5569523 Feb 17 13:32 builds/crosstool-native-bin_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang  12677163 Feb 17 13:33 builds/crosstool-native-lib_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang    1722660 Feb 17 13:33 builds/crosstool-native-inc_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang    7049858 Feb 17 13:34 builds/crosstool-native-arch-bin_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang    9032668 Feb 17 13:34 builds/crosstool-native-arch-lib_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang    7483945 Feb 17 13:35 builds/crosstool-native-arch-inc_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
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-rw-rw-r--    1 tjyang  tjyang      1058 Feb 17 13:35 builds/crosstool-native_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
 
  
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[tjyang@dual unslung]$ cp  /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/builds/*.ipk  /disk76/nslu2/tmp/
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This will be an add-on packages to OpenSolaris distributions using TWW tools to create SPARC/Intel packages in SVR4 formats. "pkg-inst gnustep-user-1.0 gnustep-developer-1.0 gnustep-apps-1.0" will install GNUstep user,developer and GNUstep native applications. pkg-rm will perform the reverse of installation.
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[tjyang@dual unslung]$
 
  
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Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-bin on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-arch-bin
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-inc on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-arch-inc
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-lib on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-arch-lib
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native-bin on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-bin
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native-inc on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-inc
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native-lib on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native-lib
 
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Upgrading crosstool-native on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
 
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Configuring crosstool-native
 
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bash-2.05b# date
 
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Sat Feb 19 01:04:07 CST 2005
 
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bash-2.05b#
 
  
  
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</pre>
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** try to compile helloworld.m objective-C file and run the helloworld binary on nslu2.
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<pre>
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# Darwin uses the Apple [[Objective-C runtime]], not the GNU version
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# Darwin uses the Apple version of GCC, not the GNU version
  
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bash-2.05b# file helloworld
 
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./helloworld: error while loading shared libraries: libobjc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 
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= Windows =
  
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Hello World
 
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Linux LKG7BFA96 2.4.22-xfs #1 Sat Jan 1 21:34:54 HST 2005 armv5b unknown unknown GNU/Linux
 
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Thu Feb 17 11:35:19 CST 2005
 
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See [[Installation on Windows]] for details on MingW setup. Also look at precompiled binary installer, available from [ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/ GNUstep's ftp site].
  
  
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= Others =
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To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can [[Platform:Other|be found here]].
  
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* Using Objective-C enalbed gcc to compile gnustep-core,gnustep-* software.
 
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** more strong testing is needed. please add instructon below if you know how to run objective-c's testsuite in crosstool.
 
  
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Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.


BSD-based systems

To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can be found here.


HP/UX


Linux-based systems

To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can be found here.


Solaris

Take a look at the required and recommended dependencies. Most of these can be found at BlastWave (which I personally recommend) or Sun Freeware. The notable exception are ffcall/libffi, Bonjour and portaudio (as of 2008-05-23).

If you plan on compiling those from source, make sure to enable the creation of SHARED libraries. Bonjour and ffcall compile right out of the box. For portaudio to compile, you will need to grab a daily-snapshot and you need to install Open Sound System headers.

Then, if you follow the installation instructions for GNUstep, you should not run into any problems.

Intel

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Sparc

GNUstep Solaris 10 U2 vmware appliance

  • Download sol u2 image, you need to have a Sun site account.
  • You can run this image in VMware server or VMware player 1.0.3.
  • Install Sun Studio 11 with latest patches.
  • Objective Compiler
    • compile your own
    • get it from BlastWave using pkg-get.
  • download all the GNUstep tar balls and follow build instruction.


OpenSolaris

This will be an add-on packages to OpenSolaris distributions using TWW tools to create SPARC/Intel packages in SVR4 formats. "pkg-inst gnustep-user-1.0 gnustep-developer-1.0 gnustep-apps-1.0" will install GNUstep user,developer and GNUstep native applications. pkg-rm will perform the reverse of installation.

It will have a nice name like GNUstep O.S. (OpenSolaris).


Darwin

Two issues differentiate Darwin from its FreeBSD cousin.

  1. Darwin uses the Apple Objective-C runtime, not the GNU version
  2. Darwin uses the Apple version of GCC, not the GNU version

See Platform:BSD#Darwin.

Windows

There are many Unix Environment solutions for windows. Currently GNUstep is using MingW as its UNIX environment foundation for Windows.

MingW

See Installation on Windows for details on MingW setup. Also look at precompiled binary installer, available from GNUstep's ftp site.


Others

To keep this list as brief as possible, information about these systems can be found here.

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