Cocoa Interface

Other Interfaces

• Lazarus known issues (things that will never be fixed) - A list of interface compatibility issues
• Win32/64 Interface - The Windows API (formerly Win32 API) interface for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/10, but not CE
• Windows CE Interface - For Pocket PC and Smartphones
• Carbon Interface - The Carbon 32 bit interface for macOS (deprecated; removed from macOS 10.15)
• Cocoa Interface - The Cocoa 64 bit interface for macOS
• Qt Interface - The Qt4 interface for Unixes, macOS, Windows, and Linux-based PDAs
• Qt5 Interface - The Qt5 interface for Unixes, macOS, Windows, and Linux-based PDAs
• GTK1 Interface - The gtk1 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
• GTK2 Interface - The gtk2 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
• GTK3 Interface - The gtk3 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
• fpGUI Interface - Based on the fpGUI library, which is a cross-platform toolkit completely written in Object Pascal
• Custom Drawn Interface - A cross-platform LCL backend written completely in Object Pascal inside Lazarus. The Lazarus interface to Android.

Platform specific Tips

• Android Programming - For Android smartphones and tablets
• iPhone/iPod development - About using Objective Pascal to develop iOS applications
• FreeBSD Programming Tips - FreeBSD programming tips
• Linux Programming Tips - How to execute particular programming tasks in Linux
• macOS Programming Tips - Lazarus tips, useful tools, Unix commands, and more...
• WinCE Programming Tips - Using the telephone API, sending SMSes, and more...
• Windows Programming Tips - Desktop Windows programming tips

Interface Development Articles

• Carbon interface internals - If you want to help improving the Carbon interface
• Windows CE Development Notes - For Pocket PC and Smartphones
• Adding a new interface - How to add a new widget set interface
• LCL Defines - Choosing the right options to recompile LCL
• LCL Internals - Some info about the inner workings of the LCL
• Cocoa Internals - Some info about the inner workings of the Cocoa widgetset

Compiling the Cocoa Interfaces

1 - Download PasCocoa from subversion

Instructions here: PasCocoa#Subversion

2- Add the path to PasCocoa to your fpc.cfg file

In a standard installation this file will be located in: /etc/fpc.cfg

Please add at the end of this file the following (remember to adapt it to the paths in your system!):

# Search path for Cocoa bindings
-Fu/Users/felipe/Programas/lazarus-ccr/bindings/objc
-Fu/Users/felipe/Programas/lazarus-ccr/bindings/pascocoa/appkit
-Fu/Users/felipe/Programas/lazarus-ccr/bindings/pascocoa/foundation
-Fu/Users/felipe/Programas/lazarus-ccr/bindings/pascocoa/applicationservices/coregraphics

Since the file is write protected, only administrator accounts will be able to edit it. It is also possible to have a local fpc.cfg file. For more information google or ask in the mailling list.

3 - Compile a test PasCocoa project

In Lazarus, open /Users/felipe/Programas/lazarus-ccr/bindings/pascocoa/example/statusitem/statusitem.lpi (or similar acording to your local paths) and build the project.

This should guarantee that PasCocoa was installed correctly and create the .o files for it.

4 - Compile LCL-Cocoa

In Lazarus go to the Tools-->Configure Build Lazarus menu. Go to advanced, set everything to NONE and only LCL to clean+build, set the widgetset to Cocoa and push the Build button.

You can now build LCL-Cocoa applications by setting the target widgetset to cocoa in the Compiler Options dialog of your projects.

Roadmap

Located here: Roadmap#Status_of_features_on_each_widgetset