Re: Cross platform development
Re: Cross platform development
- Subject: Re: Cross platform development
- From: Stefan Wiesendanger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:50:15 +0200
On Mittwoch, August 6, 2003, at 01:23 AM, David Thorp wrote:
I was under the impression (though I never checked) that the GNU
compiler
suite includes Obj-C. You would still be missing the libraries,
though ...
Hmmm... What does Apple have to say on this? (on both topics: 1. no
obj-C on Win? and 2. Cocoa libraries on Win?)
Objective-C comes with the gcc compiler, not only on OS X but also on
Linux, on Windows etc.
You get a different runtime though, and you don't get the Cocoa stuff.
So you can do ObjC development on Windows, but not Cocoa...
(well, that's not completely true... you might want to do some research
about the history of Cocoa... this "platform" was once called OPENSTEP,
and there was an implementation of OPENSTEP for Windows NT... and
actually, there still is in a way, for example Project Builder for
WebObjects on Windows runs in this environment. But it's now something
"Apple internal", i.e. you cannot develop your own stuff with it...
well you can, but you shouldn't... you're not allowed to distribute
such software I think...;-)
There also was an implementation of OPENSTEP for Sun Solaris... so
Cocoa wasn't a "only Mac" at all some years ago...
Or how about this: Is there a market for someone to write equivalents
of all the Cocoa libraries under windows, (perhaps making use of
whatever libraries windows has if it makes it any easier)?
->
http://www.gnustep.org (primarly for Linux / BSD but also for
Windows...)
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