macOS Cocotron: Cocoa for Windows?

Definitely looks interesting. Although I downloaded the test .app and ran it in parallels but i guess you have to have something for it to understand .app folders (but the .exe in the Windows folder ran).

This could be very handy once I can figure it out.

where do you download it. it has nothing in the google code downloads thing, so where/what do i download! i want to port tominated to winblows!
EDIT: don't worry, i found it

I think its something to keep an eye on, however, it sounds like it does not work %100 yet.

crap. it said error 1 and error 2

tominated said:

i want to port tominated to winblows!
EDIT: don't worry, i found it

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Don't get your hopes up. It's still a pretty rudimentary implementation. Newer (like Mac OS X or later) stuff isn't supported. WebKit views are almost certainly unsupported, and I'm assuming Tominated uses a WebKit view. Really this has a ways to go before it's useful to a lot of people, but it's still interesting (and encouraging).

kainjow said:

Definitely looks interesting. Although I downloaded the test .app and ran it in parallels but i guess you have to have something for it to understand .app folders (but the .exe in the Windows folder ran).

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The TextEditor example is Intel only, which is annoying. Runs fine on my Intel iMac, but (of course) doesn't work at all on my PowerBook. I wonder if they just forgot to compile it as Universal? They do say that Cocotron itself works on either PowerPC or Intel.

Does anyone know how this project relates to Gnustep? Is it trying to be the same thing only on windows or something different? In anycase very interesting.

aspro said:

Does anyone know how this project relates to Gnustep? Is it trying to be the same thing only on windows or something different? In anycase very interesting.

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i read on the site somewhere that it has th same idea as that but for cocoa

tominated said:

i read on the site somewhere that it has th same idea as that but for cocoa

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cocotron.org said:

How is this related to GNUStep?

Similar idea but different license, authors, source and goals.

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It's worth noting that GNUStep really is a very similar idea, and it's "for Cocoa" too. Cocoa is essentially just a new name for the OpenStep APIs from the NextStep operating system. GNUStep is a free/open source implementation of OpenStep. Cocoa is for OS X, GNUStep is primarily for Linux, and Cocotron is primarily for Windows.

Decidedly interesting... Don't know how practical it is, but if you can get a basic Cocoa app running under Windows, that's really something, especially given how difficult it is to get GNUStep to work on Windows.

I suspect Bindings, CoreData, etc. are a VERY long way off, especially as, to my knowledge, there is no published spec for either.

GNUstep has an installer for windows ... just click and go.
But I think it's a bit out of date... not the very latest version of the code.
Incidentally, the aim of GNUstep is to be a cross-platform implementation of the Cocoa API ... so it most definitely is for windows and is much more advanced than cocotron, but as the developers are from a UNIX/Linux background, the windows part is only improving slowly

Looks like most 10.2 and earlier stuff will probs work OK with a bit of fixing. Anything that requires 10.3 or later (eg bindings, core data, HTML rendering (10.2.x+safari), XML or even NSIndex* (which sucks as NSIndexSet seem to be Apple's favored way recently - a lot of stuff is being deprecated in favor of methods returning index sets)) will be a complete PITA to get working.

GeeYouEye said:

Decidedly interesting... Don't know how practical it is, but if you can get a basic Cocoa app running under Windows, that's really something, especially given how difficult it is to get GNUStep to work on Windows.

I suspect Bindings, CoreData, etc. are a VERY long way off, especially as, to my knowledge, there is no published spec for either.

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*drools* I love Bindings and CoreData, omg those are the best!