ObjFW is a portable, lightweight framework for the Objective C language. It enables you to write an application in Objective C that will run on any platform supported by ObjFW without having to worry about differences between operating systems or various frameworks that you would otherwise need if you want to be portable.

See https://heap.zone/objfw for more information.

Installation

To install ObjFW, just run the following commands:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

In case you checked out ObjFW from the Git repository, you need to run the following command first:

$ autoreconf

Building as a macOS or iOS framework

It is also possible to build ObjFW as a macOS framework. To do so, just execute xcodebuild -target 'ObjFW (Mac)' in the root directory of ObjFW to build it as a macOS framework or xcodebuild -target 'ObjFW (iOS)' to build it as an iOS framework; alternatively, you can open the .xcodeproj in Xcode and choose Build -> Build from the menu. Copy the resulting ObjFW.framework to /Library/Frameworks and you are done.

Using the macOS or iOS framework in Xcode

To use the macOS framework in Xcode, you need to add the .framework to your project and add the following flags to Other C Flags:

-fconstant-string-class=OFConstantString -fno-constant-cfstrings

Optionally, if you want to use blocks, you also need to add:

-fblocks

Bugs and feature requests

If you find any bugs or have feature requests, feel free to send a mail to js@heap.zone!