Using a cocoa command line application in Linux

I'm writing a command line tool in Objective-C (within xCode) that uses the Foundation Framework. I have to use Objective-C because I need to unarchive objects previously archived by NSKeyedArchiver.

My question is, I'm wondering if I can now use this compiled application on my Linux web server.

I'm not sure if there would be开发者_开发知识库 a runtime issue or if the executable could be its own standalone program that could actually run on my Linux server.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

You can use The Cocotron to build your app targeted to Linux. It is an actual Cocoa implementation meant to fully interoperate (although it's not 100% complete of course), as opposed to GNUstep which is not meant to work that way. I use this and it is awesome.

No, you cannot run a program that was compiled on and for a Mac on a Linux system. So you will have to compile it for (and on) Linux. Apple's Foundation framework is not available for Linux, but have a look at GNUstep, a free and open Cocoa implementation.

I don't know if GNUstep can read archives that have been archived with Cocoa's NSKeyedArchiver, though.

I have provided a wrap-up on how to compile a command line tool based on the Cocotron Foundation framework on my blog.

This does also include a step by step guide on how to cross compile the Foundation framework for Ubuntu Linux.

Hope this is helpful!