Part 2: Creating a Foundation-based CLI for Ubuntu
In Part 1: Cross Compiling Foundation I provided a step by step tutorial on how to compile the Cocotron Foundation framework for Ubuntu Linux using Xcode 4.
This post is intended to complete the tutorial by explaining how a simple command line tool can be created which will run [...]

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Part 1: Cross Compiling Foundation
Everyone who knows me knows I’m an advocate of Objective-C, the Foundation framework, and Cocoa. Luckily, in recent years Objective-C has gained wide-spread popularity by virtue of the iPhone/iPad hype. However, there has always been a lack of integration with operating systems not originating from Apple. There are numerous reasons one [...]

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I stumbled upon Ragestorm.net’s great tutorial on Python embedding when I was trying to embed Python in a Cocoa application and redirect standard output / standard error to an NSTextView. Ragestorm’s tutorial is not particularly about Cocoa / Objective-C, but does though solve the problem. Stdout / stderr is simply redirected using a fragment of [...]

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SWIG makes the creation of bindings for C/C++ libraries easy for various high-level exits (Java, Perl, PHP, Python, etc.). However, in the case of Python on OS X, when the actual SWIG wrapper is finished the difficulties begin: one needs to create an adequate dynamic library for the Python runtime — and like with everything [...]

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