Using gnustep as a library?

Hello everybody,

I would like to use gnustep objects such as NSString and NSArray in  
my programming. However, I'm just number crunching for science  
purposes; I'm not making GUI apps so I don't need to work inside the  
gnustep environment. All I need is to simply #import <NSArray.h> etc  
in my code.

To do this should I just follow the instruction to install the 'Base  
Version' package on my linux distribution and then link to the  
library when compiling?

Does the linux distribution matter? I was going to do this with Ubuntu?

Regards, Dan.