MulleObjC

💎 A collection of Objective-C root classes for mulle-objc

MulleObjC supplies the most basic runtime components like NSObject or NSThread to build a foundation on top of it. MulleObjC depends on standard C libraries only and for instance not on <unistd.h>.

Release Version

Classes

• NSAutoreleasePool - garbage collection
• NSObject - the root class of everything
• NSInvocation - method call serialization
• NSMethodSignature - method description
• NSProxy - the other root class of everything :=)
• NSThread - threads

Protocol and Protocolclasses

• NSCoding - object serialization
• NSCopying - object copying
• NSFastEnumeration - support for for ... in loops
• NSLocking - support for for ... in loops
• NSObject - for objects that don't want to behave like NSObject but can't be them
• MulleObjCClassCluster - enables classes to act as class clusters
• MulleObjCException - enabled a class to act as an exception
• MulleObjCRuntimeObject - documents the minimum required id superset
• MulleObjCSingleton - enables classes to produce singletons
• MulleObjCTaggedPointer - enables classes to use tagged pointers

Functions

• mulle_printf and variants

It does all the interfacing with the mulle-objc runtime. Any library code above MulleObjC ideally, should not be using the mulle-objc runtime directly. Creating a foundation on top of mulle-objc without using MulleObjC is a foolhardy endeavor IMO.

MulleObjC must be compiled with the mulle-clang compiler, or a compiler which supports the metaABI required for the mulle-objc runtime.

Required Libraries and Tools

Name	Build Status	Release Version
mulle-container
mulle-objc-list
mulle-objc-runtime

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Add

This is project is a mulle-sde project. Add it with:

mulle-sde dependency add --objc --github mulle-objc MulleObjC

Executables will need to link with MulleObjC-startup as well.

Install

See mulle-objc-developer for installation instructions.

Acknowledgements

Parts of this library:

Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Christopher J. W. Lloyd
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Platforms and Compilers

All platforms and compilers supported by mulle-c11 and mulle-thread.

Author

Nat! for Mulle kybernetiK and Codeon GmbH