Re: Installing GNUstep for Windows 7

On 16. lip. 2011., at 01:06, Germán Arias wrote:

On mié, 2011-06-15 at 08:57 -0400, B. Ossia wrote:
Hi,

I have installed all three GNUstep MSYS System, GNUstep Core, and
GNUstep Devel. It just gives me the Linux-like shell for Windows
operating system. Would you please tell me how I can get an IDE for
Objective C programming under Windows OS? I have Codeblock IDE for C
and C++. Will it be able to compile Objective C having GNUstep
installed?

No.

It certainly won't be able to recognize .m extension. It's best to write GNUmakefiles manually, then perhaps create a .bat file and an item in Tools menu for Code::Blocks.

Alternatively, just use Notepad++ or similar utility to write both source and GNUmakefiles, then compile it from MSYS's shell.

http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/index.html

One more question, I also need to install Cygwin for running some
other simulation software. Any idea that GNUstep provides the
same environment as Cygwin? If not, any idea if GNUstep
may conflict with Cygwin.

I'm not sure, but the README files should say something about this.

I think the compiler will conflict. You could probably be best off compiling GNUstep under Cygwin, I'm pretty sure that will work, as long as their GCC supports Objective-C. (You can test by writing a piece of pure C code, but compiling it with "gcc -x objective-c inputfilehere -o program.exe".)

From:	Ivan Vučica
Subject:	Re: Installing GNUstep for Windows 7
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:33:29 +0200