How to convert C program to Objective C?

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  1. armyguy26, Jul 2, 2010

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    Hi Everybody,
    How would you convert a C program to an Objective C program? Thanks.
     
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  2. dejo, Jul 2, 2010

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    Objective-C is a superset of C. So, depending on what your code does, you may not need to do much conversion.
     
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  3. armyguy26, Jul 2, 2010

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    What type of conversions would you need to make?
     
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  4. dejo, Jul 2, 2010

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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

    What does the program do?
     
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  5. firewood, Jul 2, 2010

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    Step 1: rename *.c files to *.m
    Step 2: ?
    Step 3: profit?
     
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  6. armyguy26, Jul 3, 2010

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    One is a blackjack one and another one is a ask the nerd program.
     
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  7. dejo, Jul 3, 2010

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    What kind of UI does these programs have? Command-line input or what?
     
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  8. armyguy26, Jul 3, 2010

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    Command-line input
     
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  9. dejo, Jul 3, 2010

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    Well, that part will need to be converted.
     
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  10. armyguy26, Jul 3, 2010

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    So how do I convert it?
     
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  11. kainjow, Jul 3, 2010

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    You can't do CLI apps on the iPhone. You'd need to use UIKit and write a GUI.
     
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  12. armyguy26, Jul 5, 2010

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    ok
     
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