mac os?

[SteveCRM]

Im just curious...but how would you make a MAC OS executable?

im guessing its completely different from windows coding on a pc

[jim mcnamara]

Back about 12 years ago - I can't speak to now - we did some Mac development. You actually had to flip a physical switch to allow development, plus you needed special software. And a compiler.

The Mac back then was not as nearly open as DOS, never as open as linux and *nix in general. They did learn from the complete failure of TRS-DOS and started to allow development.

Since a lot of games are avaiable on the Mac - about six months later than for Windows - I assume they've gotten their act together at Apple.

And - it's nothing like windows. You have a Window designer tool, which is EXTREMELY mac-like, then write function code to support whatever you're doing in the designer. There were loads of graphics primitives (api), mouse support, and a lot of macros you had to invoke to get the windowing tool to bing in necessary modules.

To test your code you flip the switch 'off', reboot, and run your code.

[agent]

i would assume that you could use Visual Studio with a MAC compiler... to test your code, you could probably get a MAC emulator...

(Just kidding, this is a keep-alive cause I'm curious too)

[SteveCRM]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=MAC+OS+Programming

google finds some stuff....but not lots

[Zaffir]

Depends on the type of Mac OS programming. If you're doing straight C, it's the same - you just need a Mac compiler.

The most popular IDE _WAS_ Codewarrior, but now that OS X has rolled around and with it some very nice dev tools, the free Apple utilities are very widely used.

There are apps like VisualBASIC for the Mac - RealBASIC and Metrowork's Codewarrior PowerPlant come to mind - but MS doesn't have any coding products for it.

I cut my teeth on some extremely newbile Mac OS 9 programming, but i've yet to play with OS X.

[CornedBee]

I think MacOS works very well with Java...