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<p>The problem is that it involves Objective-C which we don't use in the code at the moment...</p>
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<p>I believe you can call Objective-C methods from C, using <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/objective_c_runtime" rel="nofollow">the runtime</a>.</p>
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<p>...which then complicates build settings and requires linking objective-c runtime</p>
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<p>Yeah, though I'm sure Geany is already indirectly linked to the Objective-C via GTK+. It's basically just adding a <code>-framework</code> flag conditionally for Macos to the build script or whatever.</p>

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