Objective-C Support

[jab_bott]

Is it difficult to add new language support? Has anyone looked at Objective-C at all?

[amstan]

Can you compile/run it on ubuntu? That's the key question.

[tmc]

Yes, it requires the 'gobjc' package. That's enough for me to compile .m files, but I don't know if 'libobjc2' contains everything an obj-C program could want, or whether you need GNUStep too; I've only ever used it on OS X.

Anyway, it seems that the only hurdle for supporting obj-C is writing a starter package?

[jab_bott]

You don't have to have GNUStep - that provides all the NS* objects (like NSString, NSValue, NSDictionary, NSArray, NSSet, etc.), but you can write Objective-C code without all that stuff. I guess that would be the first question - can GNUStep be installed on the game servers or not? Then we know if a starter bot should use NS* classes or be written in pure obj-c.

[Minthos]

You can get gnustep and obj-c fairly easily in ubuntu. I did it myself not long ago, but I don't remember the exact steps.

Here's the makefile I used for a small test project:

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FLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE

all:
   gcc -lobjc -lgnustep-base -lcrypt -lssl -I/usr/include/GNUstep geochatd.m -o geochatd