reinerp / coremac

Haskell bindings to the C APIs for iOS and OS X

CoreMac packages

The "CoreMac" packages provide an interface to Apple's APIs for programming on Mac OS X and iOS.

Most GUI programming for the Mac and iOS is written in the Objective-C programming language. However, Apple also provides a C interface for many of its APIs. These packages provide a simpler interface than bindings like HOC, since they do not need to model Objective-C's object-oriented interface.

Several data types are "toll-free bridged" between Foundation and Core Foundation, meaning that the corresponding C and Objective-C types may be used interchangeably.
The documentation of a module will note if an object is toll-free bridged.

See the "examples" directory for suggestions on how to use this package.

Installation

For building 64-bit applications:

cabal update
cd CoreFoundation
cabal install
cd ../CoreGraphics
cabal install

For building 32-bit applications:

cabal update
cd CoreFoundation
cabal install -f32bit
cd ../CoreGraphics
cabal install -f32bit