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<h4 class="subsection">1.6.2 Windows (MINGW)</h4>
<p>On ms-windows, for software development, you are likely to want to have an
extra configuration file. This is because of the limitations of the
make program (used to build and install software).
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<p>Basically the issue is that the make package doesn’t really like the
colons and backslashes in windows paths (using them is error prone)
and can’t tolerate whitespace in file names. So you want to do all
the building in a unix-style environment using only unix-style paths.
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<p>On MSYS/MinGW this is done naturally by using the standard unix-style
/usr/local/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf config file, where the location is
inside the MSYS unix-style emulation system. This is what is normally
done by gnustep-make, so there is nothing special you need to do here.
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<p>On the other hand, the base library (and all applications since they are
built using it) wants to work with native windows paths so that applications
behave naturally as far as the end users are concerned, and therefore needs a
configuration file containing windows-style paths rather than unix-like
ones.
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<p>So, you need a different config file to be used by gnustep-base at
runtime. And this is enabled by default – in fact gnustep-base will
use ./GNUstep.conf as config file on MinGW, where the location is
relative to the location of the gnustep-base.dll.
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<p>In other words, gnustep-make will use
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<p>This ./GNUstep.conf file normally does not even exist; gnustep-base’s
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resources (relative from the installation location of
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gnustep-base.dll that contains the relative locations of the
directories (relative to the location of gnustep-base.dll).
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<p>It is recommended that this ./GNUstep.conf always contains relative
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