Writing that logic in C seems very intimidating to be honest, but thanks for the suggestion.
A priori I think it would be less painful to maintain two codebases in Swift and C#. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:44 PM Robert Tillyard <r...@atvetsystems.com> wrote: > I had a UNIX project that was already in C that I ported to OS X that > sounds similar. > > It mainly consisted of a small amount of UI and some networking logic. As > the networking was already in C I just copied the .c and .h file into my > project and compiled it as part of the project. If the UNIX side gets > updated I just copy the file back to OS X. I guess it depends on how > complicated your network logic is. > > The Windows guys also did the same with the Windows version. > > > If you have to write a C bridge to Go you might find doing it all in C > works. > > Regards, Rob. > > > On 27 Aug 2019, at 00:41, Pier Bover via Cocoa-dev < > cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > In a couple of months I'll be starting a macOS Swift 5 project and if > > possible I'd like to separate as the business networking logic so that it > > can be reused in a Windows app in the future. > > > > Ideally I'd want to statically link the library but I've also considered > > using dynamic libraries, or even include binaries in my app and execute > > them via Process(). > > > > I've considered a multitude of corssplatform options (JVM, QT, Xamarin, > > etc) but quite frankly I'd rather maintain one codebase per platform than > > use one of those which could introduce more problems than they solve. > > > > I'd prefer avoiding C++ if possible. My first choice would have been > using > > Go which can compile to .so shared objects but Xcode cannot use those > > without some bridge written in C. I've read Rust can compile to a dylib > for > > Xcode. > > > > Has anyone any recommendations or tips to share? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Pier > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
