macOS C++ / Obj C mash ups

[rinseout]

Has anybody here written an application that does the GUI stuff using Cocoa/Obj C, but does all of the real work in C++ code?

I know it's possible to, for example, link a program that with both Fortran and C objects, but is it possible to do this with Obj C and C++ together? It must be since it would be silly to re-write a C++ code base just to get a native app going. I guess the questions are: is it possible to do (in principle), and will XCode handle it easily?

I have no existing Obj-C code, so if this is possible, is there a good way of going about doing this without making coding style people freak out?

 

[robbieduncan]

There are a few possible ways of doing this (although I have not done any of them).

Apple's gcc allows for Objective C++, a kind of bridge between the two. This would result in a single executable.

You could also run the C++ as a sperate non-GUI executable and use the standard methods for wrapping a command line app to provide the GUI.