On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 15:56:21 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
BTW, the following line [3] of the Dub file will embed the
Info.plist file in the executable, which can be handy if you
don't want to use application bundles. The Info.plist file is
not always necessary, I think my sample application will work
without it, but for some things is necessary.
I also have a Dockerfile [4] with a cross-compiler setup that
targets macOS.
You should also know that there's a bug in DMD, which I haven't
manged to fix, that occurs when returning certain structs from
Objective-C methods. I'm pretty sure if works correctly in LDC,
since it's using the LLVM backend that already knows about
Objective-C.
Finally, since you're using D you'll not have ARC (Automatic
Reference Counting) which these days are preformed by the
Objective-C and Swift compilers. You'll need to resort to
traditional release/retain calls where appropriate. I have not
included those calls in my sample application.
I'm also interested in making native macOS apps. I have a lot of
experience in Objective-C but I'm new at D. I'm a bit confused at
what documentation to look at. In [1] I get the impression that
support for creating instances is very rudimentary, but in [2] it
looks much better with constructors mapped with @selector. What
level of support is there in the latest DMD compiler?
Also, is there any support for creating macOS application bundles?
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/objc_interface.html
[2] https://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43
