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Objective C support [message #21566]

Sun, 10 March 2002 22:01

Rico Kahnert

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I'm wondering if there are plans for Objective C support.
I haven't found a good IDE for it, so it would be great
if it would be included.
This might be very interesting for MacOS X developer too.

Thanks

Rico

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Re: Objective C support [message #21614 is a reply to message #21566]

Mon, 11 March 2002 15:48

Jeff Turnham

Messages: 67
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi Rico,

The CDT does not have Objective-C Support in plan. Extending the CDT to
properly handle Objective-C would be an interesting piece of work, and an
ideal candidate for some open source developer.
I must confess I don't know much about Objective-C, but from a quick survey
of the documentation it looks like the work would include the following:

1. Build Support - Should work already since we allow the user to specify
the command line used to build.
2. Automake/Autoconf Support - Our autoconf generation would need to be
extended to recognize\support Objective-C source (.m files in particular),
and generating the proper build invocations.
3. Debugging Support - While I believe gdb supports Objective-C,
investigation would need to happen to determine if our gdb wrapper handles
it correctly.
4. Parsing/Browsing Support - The C/C++ parser would need to be extended to
recognize the Objective-C extensions.

I've opened a "feature" in our bugzilla (11094) that captures this request.
This doesn't imply that we'll do it, but that we would encourage others to
look at this.

Thanks...

Jeff Turnham

"Rico Kahnert" <rico@kahnert.net> wrote in message
news:a6gl47$qt1$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there are plans for Objective C support.
> I haven't found a good IDE for it, so it would be great
> if it would be included.
> This might be very interesting for MacOS X developer too.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rico
>
>

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