Re: Cross-platform Cocoa?
Re: Cross-platform Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: Cross-platform Cocoa?
- From: Alex Perez <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jens Ayton wrote:
> Graham J Lee:
> > Shaun Wexler:
> >> James Bucanek:
> >>
> >>> So I'm talking to a friend of mine last night, and he thinks my
> >>> Cocoa application would be a smash hit on Windows[1].
> >>
> >> Blasphemy! He should be slapped.
> >>
> >
> > Or pointed at GNUstep (http://www.gnustep.org), or asked to purchase
> > back-issues of OpenStep Enterprise for NT or Yellow Box for NT. All
> > of which will allow (some) Cocoa apps to be ported to Windows NT.
>
> I've been wondering about this. AIUI GNUstep under Windows requires
> Cygwin. What amount of overhead is required to run a GNUstep-based app
> under Windows?
This is incorrect. It can use cygwin, but works great under mingw, (which
is really just a compiler and collection of a bunch of headers, which
generates 100% native windows binaries, with no ugly cygwin DLL runtime
aftertaste/performance degredation.
The binary GNUstep-base (Foundation) installer at GNUstep.org uses mingw.
Cheers,
Alex Perez
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