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Is it practically possible to create GUI application for MacOS without using XCode? I am building my Sciter using premake5 on Win/Lin/rPI/Mac. Premake5 is ver

Is it practically possible to create GUI application for MacOS without using XCode? I am building my Sciter using premake5 on Win/Lin/rPI/Mac. Premake5 is very useful to generate projects and makes for different platforms/IDEs. But on Mac premake5 is really works to create .dylibs only - seems like to generate GUI app on Mac XCode is the only option, is it?

slmjkdbtl 5y ago
It's very possible, check out code for glfw, sdl, and sokol and grep for "cocoa", "mac", but you do need ObjC, which can be written in C files with -ObjC flag.
saagarjha 5y ago
Depends on what "practical" means to you. For example, you can paste import AppKit _ = NSApplication.shared NSApp.setActivationPolicy(.regular) let window = NSWindow(contentRect: NSRect(origin: .zero, size: CGSize(width: 500, height: 500)), styleMask: [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable], backing: .buffered, defer: true) window.title = "Test" window.center() window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true) NSApp.run() into a file and run it to get a window.