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General
The Embeddinator-4000 project is under the Mono umbrella and most of the contribution rules, tools and process are identical. Even if it is a bit out of date, the spirit of Mono Contribution HowTo still applies, including the DO WRITE TESTS!!!
- Bug reporting: Issues and enhancement requests are presently tracked in github (not bugzilla).
- Chat: https://gitter.im/managed-interop
Objective-C
The work on the Objective-C generator occurs in the objc branch. Here are the steps to build it from our repository/branch:
> git clone https://github.com/mono/Embeddinator-4000.git
> cd Embeddinator-4000
> git branch objc
> git pull && git submodule update --init --recursive
> nuget restore
> msbuild
Once complete you should be able to run the tool with
$ mono objcgen/bin/Debug/objcgen.exe
Tests can be executed by running make from the tests/objc-cli directory.
The installer can be built by running make installer in the objcgen directory.
Specific Goals
In addition to mapping .NET APIs to Objective-C we aim to:
- Generate modern and pleasing APIs to use from Objective-C;
- Bridge similar concepts between .NET and Objective-C, e.g. convert interfaces into protocols;
- Increase interoperability with Foundation.framework, e.g. map all
System.StringtoNSString; - Expose extra types from .NET base class libraries (BCL) when required (and when no native alternative exists);