Re: Installation script

[Ondrej Florian]

Hi Nikolaus,

GSDE install scripts go far beyond just installing GNUstep libraries 
and build environment.
Its purpose is to provide complete desktop environment so those 
scripts pull in a lot of dependencies, etc.

In addition, these scripts are very "opinionated" as to how everything 
should be setup and come together.
For example:

- hard requirement for X11
- it comes with its fork of WindowMaker as WM
- /Application, /Libraries type of directory layout
- patches for GNUstep libraries

Considering all of this, dedicated build scripts for GNUstep is still 
very much needed, especially if you want to do cross-platform 
development.

Thanks,
Ondrej

On 2024-02-25 00:47:28 +0000 H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> 
wrote:

> Nice. Will try asap on different architectures (arm64, armel, armhf, 
> i386, 
> mipsel) and different Debian flavours.
>
> How is it related to https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html 
> resp. 
> https://github.com/onflapp/gs-desktop which is also a set of scripts 
> to 
> install GNUstep on Debian systems? Does it also provide some 
> "Desktop" 
> experience?
>
> BR,
> Nikolaus
>
> > Am 24.02.2024 um 23:36 schrieb Ethan Charoenpitaks 
> > <echaroenpitaks@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> >         I've written an installation script for GNUstep, which has 
> > been 
> > tested so far on recent Debian and Ubuntu derivatives. It should be 
> > easily 
> > portable to any distribution, so long as you can determine the 
> > correct 
> > commands to install all the dependencies and clang-14. It will just 
> > install 
> > from source, installing all the files into /usr/GNUstep/System and 
> > /usr/GNUstep/Local. It's based on @plaurent's gnustep-build scripts 
> > <https://github.com/plaurent/gnustep-build>, but has been heavily 
> > modified 
> > to only have one script that applies to all distributions. I would 
> > appreciate it if anyone would be willing to try it out, or to port 
> > it to 
> > other distributions. It is probably also portable to other Unixes, 
> > but 
> > might not be applicable to Windows, iOS, or Android.
>
> > To install GNUstep from source, please cd to the directory in which 
> > you 
> > want to store GNUstep's source code, and run the following script:
>
> > wget -qO- 
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethanc8/gnustep-build/master/generic/build.sh 
> > | bash
> > If you want to customize the installation paramaters (for example, 
> > to 
> > install an older version of the libraries, to install from git 
> > master, or 
> > to disable the applications), please do the following:
>
> > git clone https://github.com/ethanc8/gnustep-build
> > nano generic/build.sh # Or your favorite text editor
> > ./generic/build.sh
> > Thanks!
>
> > Ethan