Re: Experience of porting a WO 4.01 NT cmd-line program to gstep, aga in on Win NT?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Mike Llewellyn wrote:

> Thanks for the info.
>
> Do you (or anybody else?) know where I might find top-level 
> documentation that might aid me in establishing a development 
> environment for gstep-base on a Win platform?

There isn't anything much ... I'd call this alpha or beta software under 
windows - it works, but it's
far from polished, and there are bound to be some bugs left.
The file README.mingw in the Documentation subdirectory of the make 
package is about all there is,
and this file is a few weeks out of date as I haven't found time to do a 
re-install from scratch
and update it recently.

> Apologies for my ignorance, it has been years since using NeXTSTEP, and 
> I have become M$-ised over the last few years.
>
> Is it just a case of putting the root folder of the gstep-base tree 
> into a default search path, add the gstep-make files likewise, and take 
> it from there?

Not that easy I'm afraid.  You should read the file I mentioned above, 
and take it from there.
There are no binariy packages available ... you have to build from 
source.

> I have not noticed the file gdomap that you mention anywhere yet, 
> perhaps I need a package of binaries to be able to run correctly?

gdomap is in the Tools subdirectory of the base package.

> Do I need Cygwin to be able to use gstep?

Not necessarily, but you do need some unix-like environment - at the 
moment your choices are MSYS and Cygwin.
I mostly use MSYS, and the documentation reflects that.  I think MSYS is 
a bit simpler to use than Cygwin,
but you can find a larger variety of other packages to run under cygwin 
(I run CVS from cygwin).