Stefan Dösinger wrote: >> The problem is that there can't be any Objective-C code in Wine. At all. >> Or C++. Or Fortran. Or Pascal. Or Ada. Or Java. Or C# or VB. Or any >> language other than pure, procedural C. >> > Alexandre has said that you can put objective C code into wine, but only if > this code is properly abstracted from the other parts of the quartz driver. > E.g. by a simple binding wrapper that does nothing but wrap Objective C to C > bindings. The requirement is that somebody can read and understand the Quartz > driver without knowing Objective C. > > The biggest obstacle to merging a Quartz driver is cleaning up the user32 > driver interface. Objective C is a minor issue with a pretty straightforward > solution. Currently nobody knows what a proper user32 driver interface would > look like. > It might be a good idea to look at the code used in other projects to get a good starting point. OpenOffice.org did an implementation of an Aqua driver based from X11 code. Took SEVERAL years to do.
James McKenzie
