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1.1.4 Does GNUstep run on Windows?

The primary targets for GNUstep are free UNIX system-based platforms such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

That being said, the base library should run on Windows NT, 98, 2000, and XP with the Cygwin UNIX system-emulation environment from Cygnus (http://www.cygwin.com/), or the MinGW environment (http://www.mingw.org).

The GUI library uses the win32 backend library to work under Windows. The backend library is a thin layer that converts the GNUstep methods to handle drawing of GUI elements to calls to the Windows API. This project is currently in beta.