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Obligatory plug for Cappuccino http://www.cappuccino-project.org the original Cocoa for Web.

Judging from GitHub, it looks kinda dead [1]. GNUstep for Windows [2] might be a better choice (and more likely to be up to date and complete since it is still in active development) to port something from macOS. Although you may need to have some GNUstep libraries on the system to run the application (or install them alongside your application). In traditional GNUstep fashion, it is unclear from their site what exactly is needed and why and gives the impression that you need to install the entire GNUstep just to run a simple application.

[1] https://github.com/cjwl/cocotron [2] http://www.gnustep.org/windows/installer.html

There's also the WinObjC project from Microsoft: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC

This is the one to use. Worth noting that Microsoft took a fair bit of the original source for this project from The Cocotron.

Not really. The focus of the project died with WP.

Which lacks a detailed quick start guide. Do they still require visual studio for development?

Is there something new going on with Cocotron? Seems like it was all but abandoned years ago.

The Cocotron (2006) ...might be a better title.

Maybe the posters hoping someone will revive it.

I wonder if it works still. Being able to compile for Linux and Windows from the same Xcode project would be really nice.

Last time I tried, it did, but it was a lot of work to get running with the version of Xcode at that time. The mailing list had a lot of details on what needs to be done to get the toolchain up and running. It was a tough slog but I did get it working.

It's worth noting that Microsoft used a lot of Cocotron for their WinObjC porting project. Depending on your needs it might be worth a look. I was porting a desktop Mac app, so it was less useful.

The project is very much moribund but I've used it to see how some things might be implemented.

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