Re: Is there a decent Obj-C for Windows?
Re: Is there a decent Obj-C for Windows?
- Subject: Re: Is there a decent Obj-C for Windows?
- From: Robert S Goldsmith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:32:18 +0100
Chris Gehlker wrote:
I'm seriously contemplating porting some of my QuickTime code to Cocoa and I
have to decide whether it's worth while to try to bring along the Windows
support. I've really been all over the web and I still don't have a clear
picture of the status of Objective C on Windows.
Objective C is supported by a number of compilers - esp. the
gnu compilers such as gnu cc. I know that gnu cc comes with
object.h and have used it.
However, that is all they tend to come with. Foundation and
Appkit are available throught gnustep but be warned -
although they are pretty good for most things, graphics are
hard to setup and DO is also rather patchy and requires
extra apps running.
Basically, graphics in objectiveC are built on display
postscript so you would need a dps renderer for windows - or
a conversion lib. DO requires a DO server to be running on
each machine using them and Notifications require a
notification server.
Really, unless it is natively supported (ie. Nextstep,
openstep or os X), the Foundation and Appkit frameworks are
much less useful or should only be used if you are willing
to run the extra apps that work with the frameworks to get
everything working. Certianly not good for writing apps for
the pc unless you are willing to force people to install all
these apps ...
Robert