Re: A little confused

[Jeremy Tregunna]

Well to answer this extremely vague question (not completely 
understanding what it is you want), I'll give you a couple of answers, 
you can find out which best suits you:

For starters, you don't need GNUstep at all if all you are doing is 
developing code that will be run on OSX. If you do want to be able to 
run your application on GNUstep platforms as well, you will need to 
convert your nib's to gmodels, then open up the gmodels in the Gorm 
program, save them as .gorm files. To accomplish this, you do your 
interfaces in Interface Builder on OS X, then you would have to have 
installed gnustep-make and gnustep-base at a minimum, plus the 
nib2gmodel program which converts nibs to gmodels (I have no direct 
experience with this proceedure, so I can't answer any questions you 
may have about that). If you want to build an existing GNUstep app on 
OS X (keep in mind not all applications are source compatible) and it 
only includes GNUmakefile's, no Project.xcode or Project.pbproj bundle, 
then you will need to have installed gnustep-make. You do NOT have to 
have any other part of GNUstep installed for building an application, 
as gnustep-make doesn't care which framework(s) you are using, be them 
part of Cocoa or part of GNUstep. If you want to be able to build your 
application on both OS X and GNUstep, keep in mind you will need to 
convert any .nib's you've created as meantioned above, but from there 
you have two choices. You can either 1) Create and maintain a build 
system using Xcode AND GNUmakefile's, or you can use gnustep-make only 
(nothing to keep in sync between build environments). I personally 
prefer the latter, even though I edit my code with Xcode.

Anyway, that should answer your question, one of those responses anyway.

--
Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@fuqn.ca

On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Shalev NessAiver wrote:

> I'm sorry but I'm still a little bit confused as to how GNU ties in 
> with OS X/Xcode. I already have Xcode installed, does that mean I 
> still need to install the entire GNUStep or is it already on my system 
> in some form? I know that when using XCode I can include Foundation 
> etc. but this is probably just the Cocoa equivalents. So... do I need 
> all of the libraries? Are there pieces of the main installation that I 
> don't need? The installation instructions are a little unclear on 
> this.
>
> -Thanks for the help
> Shalev
>
>
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