The mintty is light unix terminal in windows, which came from putty source, it is my main terminal now for daily job.
GNUstep coming with msys.bat but it is not support portable, this is idea to make GNUstep portable for mintty:
Step1 How to get portable GNUstep
1) install GNUstep pakcages to one folder, default one is C:\GNUstep
2) copy C:\GNUstep to usb driver f:\portableapps\GNUstep
3) uninstall all GNUstep packages
Step2 How to take care of usb driver
1) place below GNUstep-usbmsys-mintty.bat file to J:\portableapps\GNUstep\msys\1.0
@echo off ::Get the current batch file's short path for %%x in (%0) do set BatchPath=%%~dpsx for %%x in (%BatchPath%) do set BatchPath=%%~dpsx ::echo BatchPath = %BatchPath% ::Change to the batch file's directory cd %BatchPath% echo #Automatically generated - modify fstab.model > etc\fstab ::replace fstab with current directory for /F "eol=# tokens=1,2* delims=:" %%i in (etc\fstab.model) do @echo %~d0%%j >> etc\fstab ::launch GNUstep mintty terminal start bin\mintty /bin/bash -l
2) prepare /etc/fstab
cp /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.orig
place /etc/fstab
#Automatically generated - modify fstab.model j:/portableapps/GNUstep /mingw j:/portableapps/GNUstep/GNUstep /GNUstep
place /etc/fstab.model
X:/portableapps/GNUstep /mingw X:/portableapps/GNUstep/GNUstep /GNUstep
each time bat file GNUstep-usbmsys-mintty.bat will detect real usb driver and update in /etc/fstab.
Step3 How to launch GNUstep
double click GNUstep-usbmsys-mintty.bat, that is it, you are leading to mintty with GNUstep env setup:
Setting up GNUstep Environment...
dreamdcloud ~
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
F:\portableapps\GNUstep\GNUstep
233G 125G 109G 54% /GNUstep
F:\PORTAB~1\GNUstep\msys\1.0
233G 125G 109G 54% /usr
F:\PORTAB~1\GNUstep\msys\1.0
233G 125G 109G 54% /
F:\portableapps\GNUstep
233G 125G 109G 54% /mingw
F:\portableapps
233G 125G 109G 54% /portable