Dynace Object-Oriented Extension to C

Dynace is a portable, open-source extension to the C language that adds the following capabilities to standard C:

• full object-oriented capabilities including
  • classes, instances, methods, & generic functions
  • encapsulation
  • polymorphism
  • (multiple) inheritance
• fully meta-class based (like Smalltalk or CLOS)
• dynamic binding and dispatching through generic functions (like CLOS)
• garbage collection
• cooperative threads (also supports native threads)
• full class library
• optional Win32 GUI development system (portable through WINE)
• interfaces with Java, ODBC, OLE
• SQL interface / class library

Dynace:

• written in standard C
• includes over 600 pages of documentation in two user manuals (https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace/blob/master/manual/Dynace.pdf and https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace/blob/master/manual/WDS.pdf)
• step-by-step tutorials
• using classes involves no new syntax elements to standard C
• easily added to existing C code

Dynace is portable across:

• 16, 32 & 64 bit environments
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows (all versions)
• BSD
• Solaris / OpenIndiana
• Plan 9
• Minix
• ARM (cross-build)

The main home for this system is: https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace

Dynace is production quality and has been used in commercial environments for more than ten years.

Dynace was written to solve perceived problems with C++ as outlined in the user manual.

Dynace is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

System overview is at: docs/ORIENT.txt

Build instructions are at: docs/BUILD.txt