Re: Porting to Win32

FROM : Scott Stevenson
DATE : Wed Apr 06 19:23:12 2005

On Apr 6, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Vincent Flouriot - SeaSideTech wrote:

> I'd like to find information about porting from Cocoa to Windows.
>
> 1st question :
> - Does .pbxproj file extention means that the project I want to port
> has been developped with Cocoa ?


Likely, but not guaranteed. It just means that it was created in
Project Builder or Xcode. This usually means it's a Cocoa project, but
not always. If you see .m files in the project, than it's nearly a
certainty.


> 2nd question :
> What should I do to browse the project. Is there a solution to explore
> it from a windows-based workstation ?


Not that I know of, but maybe somebody else has an idea. My guess is
you're probably going to save yourself a lot of time by getting an
actual Mac. I imagine you need to see how the app works anyway, right?


> 3rd question :
> Do you know any tutorial about how to do such a job (porting from
> Cocoa to Win)


This isn't a simple thing. I don't think a tutorial could do what you
need. Cocoa is quite different from Win32 in many respects, and you
might find you have to write a lot of stuff from scratch.

In reality, you probably need to learn Cocoa first.


    - Scott

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