C++ / Obj C mash ups

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  1. rinseout, Jun 9, 2005

    rinseout macrumors regular

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    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?
     
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  2. robbieduncan, Jun 10, 2005

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    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.
     
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