C-Macs
A Cocoa Application with no Nibs and no Objective-C Code
C-Macs is a successful attempt to port the ability to dig a foundation with a spoon. The app is written entirely in C, with gratuitous calls to the Objective-C Runtime.
Features
- Nibless!
- Main.m-less!
- Cocoa-less!
- Uses under 1.5 MB of memory at any one time (most of it is used for drawing the window).
- A red square in the lower-left-hand corner (drawn in Core Graphics).
License
- Absolutely no license. Use it at your own risk, and don't blame me if anything bad happens. Oh, and if you extend it, make sure there isn't any Objective-C in it!
Important Notes & Bugs
- The app does not release allocated memory;
- There is an implied autoreleasepool, but one is not explicitly created.
- A small reliance on
__attribute__((constructor)), which is not the best way to do things…
- WAY too many framework includes and links to dylibs we don't need.
- Built and tested on OS X Lion. Theoretically, it's possible this works on all machines that support the modern ObjC runtime, however, use on older OSes below 10.6 is highly discouraged.
- All calls to framework objects are compliant with OS X 10.0+, however the code will only run on intel architectures. This will be remedied first.