Cross-platform Cocoa?
Cross-platform Cocoa?
- Subject: Cross-platform Cocoa?
- From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:46:02 -0700
Greetings,
So I'm talking to a friend of mine last night, and he thinks my Cocoa application would be a smash hit on Windows[1]. *sigh*
But it did get me to thinking. How much of Obj-C and the NextStep framework is portable to Intel processors? It would really be nice to maintain a single Obj-C code base with all of the business logic -- should I actually develop a brain tumor and decide to port it to Windows.
I thought the Obj-C compiler was cross platform. So at the very least, I could recompile the application and roll my own NS... objects (I don't use that many -- the part of the application that I'd want to port has no GUI and very little Mac-specific code).
I also thought that all of the NS... framework came from Next, which ran on Intel processors originally. But I don't know if the current NS... framework is available for Intel or is open source, nor do I know how much it relies on Darwin.
Anyway, this is just idle speculation. I just thought I'd ask in case anyone here has had experience doing/trying this.
Thanks,
James
[1] What well written Mac application *wouldn't* be smash hit on Windows? Can you say iTunes?
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James Bucanek <mailto:email@hidden>
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