NSArchiver on Win32 and cross-compatibility with Cocoa?

[Angus Gratton]

Hi folks,

I've been looking at using the NSArchiver class to store my document 
data files (a combination of primarily strings and sounds - probably 
using SndKit.)

However, it has to run on both Windows (Win32/mingw compiler) and 
Cocoa (using Apple's foundation kit) and I understand that the 
GNUStep and Cocoa Archiver files aren't compatible, right?

Is there any way you can use the GNUStep Archiver format even if you 
don't use anything else from GNUStep (I don't want to force my users 
to install all the GNUStep stuff on OS X.)

Am I daydreaming? Do I need to byte the bullet and make my own 
encoder/decoder methods for this data?

Thanks,


Angus
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