2005/12/09 v 5:06, Miguel Menchu:
> Hi,
>
>     I started this week learning about objective-c, in an attempt  
> to use the bluetooth libraries in os X. Since I don't know  
> objective c that well
> yet, I was hoping to use the api from C. I read a couple of online  
> docs but I need help with a couple of questions. So far the most  
> useful
> doc has been this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-
> gnustep/2002-07/msg00091.html
>
> My questions are these:
> - Once we've compiled the objective-c code and have a filename.o  
> file, how do we proceed to include that in c? I tried doing  
> #include filename.o, even filename.m but nothing happened.

The include directive is for including source files (header files in  
most cases). If you want to link C and ObjC object files together,  
you can do that in the same way as if they were all C object files,  
it doesn't matter. And remember that gcc supports both languages so  
you don't have to care about these details.

>
> - If you were able to visit the link above, there's info on how to  
> call the object's methods; however there's no info regarding how to  
> declare the type of that object. For example suppose we have a  
> objective-c file with name filename.o and a method "dosomething".  
> From the linke above I gather i need to call it like this:
> void c_function(filename* anObject)
> {
> [anObject dosomething];
> }is this correct? But the compiler complains that the class  
> filename is not declared! Please help.

The fact that most source file names (and object file names) are the  
same as the contained class names is just a coincidence. [anObject  
doSomething] (calling ObjC methods) constructions can be used only in  
ObjC source, not in plain C. What you probably want to do is this:

Foo.m - ObjC file containing C functions which call ObjC methods
Foo.h - declarations of functions in Foo.m

Bar.c - #includes Foo.h and uses its functions.


However, you can't use ObjC classnames (filename in your example) in  
the pure C code (and therefore they shouldn't appear in Foo.h). You  
may instead consider using ObjC (.m) source files in the whole  
project to avoid these problems. Remember that C is just a subset of  
Obj-C, so you can use plain C in most of the project and ObjC  
whenever you need.

--
Adam Nohejl
Loki Software
mailto:adam@loki...
http://lokisw.com


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