I am a beginner in Objective-C language. I have downloaded and installed GNUstep msys and GNUstep core and installed them in order, as mentioned in the downloads page of GNUstep.
But, I think that the installation isn't correct, because whenever I try to compile an Objective-C source file, it shows fatal error Foundation/Foundation.h file not found. Means, due to some reasons, the path to the header files isn't valid.
Although I am now successfully able to compile the source file with the -I and -L options, I faced another problem. After compilation, when I run the compiled exe file, it shows an error that many dll files are missing, such as objc-4.dll, gnustep-base-1_24.dll to name a few of them. But, I found all of these files present under the /GNUstep/System/Tools folder. When I copied these dll files to my main working (home) directory, it runs successfully without any errors.
Why is this happening? All the tutorials I found on the internet shows very simply the compiling and running of Objective-C programs in Windows without changing so many things. Am I missing something? I have searched many times in StackOverflow and also on the internet, but none of those solved this problem. Please help me and thanks in advance.
P.S. - I have installed GNUstep in the default C:/GNUstep/ folder and included the C:/GNUstep/bin/ and C:/GNUstep/msys/1.0/bin/ folders in the PATH environment variable.
I noticed that there are more than one gcc.exe files present on my system for three different programming language compilers and their parent folders are included in the PATH environment variable. So, the gcc command conflicted with those three executables and therefore, the path to the dll files become invalid.
So, I had to move the GNUstep's bin directory to the top of the PATH environment variable to ensure that the GNUstep's gcc executable is used. And now, everything works like a charm.