Re: Objective-C & GNUstep Base on Ubuntu compute cluster: crazy?

[David Chisnall]

On 30 Mar 2011, at 17:17, David Kulp wrote:

> So am I crazy to even consider this?  Can a minimal GNUstep be easily built 
> on Ubuntu without a GUI.  Is it conceivable that I could develop in Xcode on 
> my mac and test and deploy to a linux box?  Anyone else do this?


Absolute not a crazy idea.  You are less likely to encounter problems from 
missing features in GNUstep's Foundation implementation than AppKit.  If your 
code on OS X only depends on Foundation / libobjc and C libraries that are 
available on both platforms, then it should work fine.

I wrote all of the examples for my latest book (Objective-C Phrasebook) on OS X 
and only tested on GNUstep after the book had gone to the publisher - all of 
them compiled (no missing symbols or methods reported) and all of the ones that 
I tested worked fine.  

This was on FreeBSD - the biggest problem going from OS X + Foundation to Linux 
+ GNUstep-base is likely to be moving from Darwin libc to glibc.

David

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