Can NetBeans be used to write Objective-C programs?

Question

I want to learn Objective-C (solely the language itself, not Cocoa touch, etc...) on a windows machine. I saw the below link:

Is it possible to execute Objective-C programs in Windows?

but they all offer command-line tools and I'm looking for an IDE. I want to know whether is it possible to write Objective-C on NetBeans or not.

Answer 1

on windows dev-cpp is the only real option. It usually already comes with all the reqired tools. However i strongly suggest to get the latest mingw and setup devcpp to use that one. I also have the source for a very basic runtime. So if you don't want to use the existing one feel free to ask.

-The basic setup works like this: -install devcpp -install mingw (make sure you install c,c++ and objective-c) -add mingw compiler inside devcpp -enable syntax highlighting for *.m and *.mm files

now all you need to do is create a c or cpp project. Mingw will automatically compile *.m and *.mm files as objective-c code.