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
Download gnustep-objc, and compile it
make make install
sheldon: Actually, recent versions of gcc (3.2+) have a working libobjc on Windows so this step probably isn't strictly necessary.
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
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