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user310291

Reputation: 38190

What prevent Cocotron to be crosscompiled on Visual Studio instead of Mac OS X?

Seems like Cocotron is a good choice: http://macdaddyworld.com/2008/10/27/adventures-in-cocotron/

But crosscompilation is on Mac / XCode. What prevents to be able to do the other way round ?

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Answers (1)

gjd
gjd

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I guess it is technically possible but out of Cocotron's scope. Cocotron works by having code developed for the Mac be compiled targeting Windows. As Apple don't provide SDKs and cross-compilers for Windows, the Cocotron project is writing another SDK whose API is compatible with Apple's and uses underlying Windows (or Linux, or Solaris) and auxiliary APIs as needed. The project also provides the cross-compilation toolchain.

Notice that the original intent of Cocotron is to provide a way for Mac developers to target their projects at Windows and/or some other Unix-based operating systems.

You want it the other way around. As such, someone would have to provide a suitable cross-compiler toolchain and somehow tell Visual Studio to use that, and link against Cocotron. I can see this happening in two ways: either Windows developers make the effort of adapting toolchains/Cocotron to Visual Studio, or Chris Lloyd is hired to do it. You can always ask him. ;-)

Also, I'm not sure if nib loading works in Cocotron but if (or when) it does, Windows developers would probably want a UI design tool similar to Interface Builder.

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