Re: Objective C - C++ interface

[Scott Christley]

Hi Rob,

Sorry I've taken so long to get this to you.  I don't think that going with  
CORBA is your best bet; the main reason being that I only know of one ORB  
which supports ObjC and it's a commerical package.  What would be better is  
to write some C wrapper functions which I've illustrated in the attached  
file; this example also has an ObjC class which essentially wraps the C++  
class and allows you use it as if it was a normal ObjC class.

I've cc'ed the swarm support mailing list because there may be other people  
interested in how to do this, and the example is small.  Let me know if you  
have any questions.

cheers
Scott

You wrote:
> Scott:
>
> At SwarmFest, you recommended that I try CORBA from MICOM to implement
> in interface between C++ and Objective C.  When I found and downloaded
> this package, it only had support for C++.  Is there an interface
> package that has support for Objective C as well?  If not, do you have
> any suggestions for a good interface between the two languages.
>
> Rob Kewley
>

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