[Openmcl-devel] Providing an Objective-C API with Clozure

[Steven Núñez]

I should have been more clear: technically it's not client/server (as in remote), it's a objective-c library that the GUI guys will use. So I guess that answers the main question: no clozure library callable from ObjectiveC without a wrapper of sorts. 

Cheers,
	- Steve


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Steven Núñez
steve.nunez at illation.com.sg




On 02/02/2010, at 2:05 AM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Steven Núñez wrote:
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>> Greetings all,
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>> I hope you'll forgive what is perhaps a naive question: we've got two groups (GUI & Server) that are nicely divided. Server guys need to provide an Objective-C API to the GUI guys.
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> I'm not sure what you mean by providing an Objective-C API.
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> If you have two processes (a server and a client), then I would expect that it would be feasible to set something up so that the two could communicate via NSPort objects or some other suitable Objective-C object.
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> It is possible to use Objective-C without the Cocoa IDE: (require 'objc-support) should do it.
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> You could write some little Objective-C library that the GUI guys could link to that would do whatever was needed to talk to the lisp server process.  You could offer whatever interface you wanted via Objective-C and then use whatever IPC mechanism was convenient to talk to the server (sockets or whatever).
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> (Of course, that little library would be written in Objective-C.  You can't write a library in lisp that you can link into a C program.)
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>> Is it feasible to provide this API via Clozure? Would love an excuse to use Clozure and this particular project would benefit from the rapid prototyping possible in lisp.
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