https://jason-grey.com/tags/cocoa/Recent content in Cocoa on jason greyHugoenTue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://jason-grey.com/posts/2008/objective-c-on-windows/Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://jason-grey.com/posts/2008/objective-c-on-windows/<p>So, I got interested in developing an application for the iPhone, but I don’t have a decent Mac to develop on. I found that the iPhone development is based on a subset of the Mac Cocoa framework. OSX came from NeXTStep. Cocoa is mostly NeXTStep libraries… hummm… how can I learn Objective-C/Cocoa on a PC… let me think…</p> <ol> <li>Download and install <a href="http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GNUStep System and Core</a> for windows.</li> <li><a href="http://www.gnustep.org/resources/ObjCFun.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Learn</a> &amp; write some objective-c code using some of the NS libraries</li> <li>Compile using gcc (comes with GNUStep). I use ant, my build file is attached - fiddle with it to work in your environment</li> <li>You may also have to have CygWin installed. I’m not actually sure which pieces are making this all work yet, so give that a try (install the base package, plus gcc, gdb, and whatever else you like)</li> </ol> <p>Currently, I’ve got this all working, and I’m using the Foundation library in the attached example. Going to try getting some UI stuff to work next.</p>