Cocoa Apps on Windows was: Re: Java vs. Objective-C for Cocoa

FROM : Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
DATE : Sat Apr 23 21:02:11 2005

Am Samstag, 23.04.05 um 00:04 Uhr schrieb Marianne Kern:
> BUT UNFORTUNATELY, Java is far more commercially appealing to the
> financial
> services industry.  I'm in the midst of trying to port a Cocoa
> application
> to (ugh!) Windows or the web because the financial institutions aren't
> interested in it while it's not executable on a Windows-compatible
> platform.
>
> So as I see it, the only way in which Java scores over objectiveC is
> commercial appeal - and that only because my target market is too
> narrow-minded for the Mac.
>


GNUstep has recently taken a giant leap forward on Windows. Maybe you
should consider it for your porting activities. I know of a company
(smartsoft) I am loosely related with which uses GNUstep on Windows for
the deployment of their business applications on Windows.

Get in contact with Marc Brünink <<email_removed>>, he was in
charge for doing the port from Cocoa to GNUstep on Windows.

See also:

http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_on_Windows

and:

http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Gorm_Installation_On_Windows
(GORM is the IB clone of GNUstep)

if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask them on
<email_removed>


> All the best,
>
> Marianne Kern, CTO
> Compliance Edge Ltd


greetings, Lars

>