<br>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br><br>Subject: Re: Objective c IDE for linux<br>Date: Monday 02 June 2008<br>From: Richard Dale <<a href="mailto:rdale@foton.es">rdale@foton.es</a>><br>To: "Luke Titley" <<a href="mailto:luke.titley@googlemail.com">luke.titley@googlemail.com</a>><br>
<br>Hi Luke<br><br>On Sunday 01 June 2008 23:27:11 you wrote:<br>> Hey,<br>> I've recently found a post on the kdevelop website mentioning a patch you<br>> submitted 8 years ago with regards to adding objective c support for<br>
> kdevelop.<br>8 years - phew! - that was a long time ago. <br><br>> I have been unsuccessful in finding any IDEs for objective c under linux.<br>> Are there any tools you would recommend for development of objective c<br>
> applications under linux ?<br>I'm afraid I haven't done any Objective-C programming for over 5 years, and <br>I'm a bit out of touch with how the GnuStep project is doing. Do they still <br>not have a dev environment? They've certainly got a nice version of <br>
InterfaceBuilder I think. <br><br>The C++ parser in KDevelop4 is a lot more sophisticated than the one that <br>KDevelop 1.x had, and I would expect it to be a lot more work to add than it <br>took me. <br><br>It looks like the KDE4 version of the Kate text editor has Objective-C syntax <br>
highlighting:<br><br>mardigras rdale 509% ls ./share/apps/katepart/syntax/object*<br>./share/apps/katepart/syntax/objectivecpp.xml<br>./share/apps/katepart/syntax/objectivec.xml<br><br>It took very little work to get gdb working with KDevelop 1.x as it's just <br>
part of gcc, and so maybe that bit wouldn't be too hard. <br><br>I can forward this mail to the kdevelop-devel list just in case someone has <br>thought about Objective-C support.<br><br>Regards<br>-- Richard<br><br>