lein-objcbuild

A Leiningen plugin to make clojure-objc development easy.

Sample project

https://github.com/galdolber/clojure-objc-sample

Usage

Add to your :dependencies of your project.clj.

Add :aot :all

Add into the :plugins vector of your project.clj.

$ lein objcbuild auto

Building standalone apps

Sample desktop app: https://github.com/galdolber/cljobjc

Why generate a static lib?

XCode makes it really hard to add all files from a folder and stay in sync. Without a static lib you need to manually copy into the project all the generated files after every compile. IOW, it's just for convenience.

XCode Setup

Every clojure-objc project generates an 'include' folder with all headers and a static library lib{project name}.a in the target folder.

Build Settings-> Other Linker Flags-> Add "-ObjC -lz -licucore -ljre_emul -lffi -lclojure-objc -l{project name}"
Build Settings-> Header Search Path-> Add "~/.clojure-objc/{version}/include" "path/to/your/project/target/include"
Build Settings-> Library Search Path->  Add "~/.clojure-objc/{version}/" "path/to/your/project/target/"

Invoking your entry point

#import "clojure/lang/RT.h"
#import "clojure/lang/Var.h"
#import "clojure/lang/ObjC.h"
@implementation AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    [ClojureLangObjC setObjC]; // required!
    [ClojureLangRT load__WithNSString:@"clojure/core"]; // load clojure core

    [ClojureLangRT load__WithNSString:@"clojure_objc_sample/core"]; // loads your entry point
    [[ClojureLangRT varWithNSString:@"clojure-objc-sample.core" withNSString:@"say-hi"] invokeWithId:@"Xcode"]; // call function
    ...

Minimal project sample

(defproject sample "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :plugins [[lein-objcbuild "0.1.5"]]
  :objcbuild {:archs [:i386 :armv7 :armv7s]}
  :aot :all
  :dependencies
  [[galdolber/clojure-objc "1.7.0-beta2"]])

All build options

(defproject ...
    :objc-source-paths ["path/to/objc/sources"]
    :objcbuild
{:objc-path "objc"
 :main nil ; main function required when building standalone apps
     :headers-path "include"
     :iphoneos-sdk "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk"
     :iphonesimulator-sdk "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhone Simulator.sdk"
     :frameworks [:UIKit :Foundation]
     :includes []
     :iphone-version-min 5.0
     :archs [:armv7 :armv7s :arm64 :i386 :x86_64]
     :clang-params "-fmessage-length=0 -fmacro-backtrace-limit=0 -std=gnu99 -fpascal-strings -fstrict-aliasing"
     :clang-extra "-O0 -DDEBUG=1"}

License

Copyright © 2014 Gal Dolber Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0.