Can I create a Mac App without using IB (in mostly C++)

Hi Everyone
I am a Windows C++ developer wanting to port an application to OSX. I’m currently reading a book on Cocoa / Objective C but have a few questions I’m hoping can be answered here.
I know that I can create a Cocoa application in XCode. However, I have already written a GUI library in C++ for Windows that creates all windows, menus and dialogs programmatically. Can I do this in XCode/Cocoa?
In Visual Studio, I can either create an MFC application, a .NET application or a basic Win32 application. The basic Win32 application is what I have used (together with my library), because it doesn’t contain any Microsoft pre-created classes. I control everything with my library.
Is there a similar project type / way of doing things in Cocoa? Can I programmatically create windows / create menus and so on? Or must I use IB for everything?
My purpose is to expose as a little of the platform specific GUI code as possible. The bulk of my program is written in C++ with no regard for specific GUI issues. But the GUI is complex and I’d rather keep the differences between code bases as small as possible.
Many thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for your help.
I was afraid that might be the answer.
My library doesn’t use any MFC, just my own classes that wrap up window creation, usage and so on.
This will definitely make me think twice before trying to port to OSX.
As I understand it (and I could easily be wrong!), you can still use C++ to write OSX apps, just not the GUI/system parts?

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