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Are there any freeware/opensource C++ compiler environments for MacOS 8+?
I am new to Mac development and not familiar with developer apps.

regards,
dkh

Quote:> Are there any freeware/opensource C++ compiler environments for MacOS 8+?

You really need to reconfigure or replace your news program. Posting
plain text as a Base64 attachment is almost guaranteed to reduce the
number of responses and their timeliness. As to the question:

MPW. The toolchain that was used to develop Mac OS for years. It's free
from Apple's developer site <http://www.apple.com/developer/> if you
follow the obvious links. If you don't follow the obvious links, you'll
probably find all kinds of other things that you're likely to otherwise
ask about in the near future including lots of docs and even a passable
introduction to Mac OS programming for Windows programmers.

G

That's because the original poster's newsreader is apparently
(mis)configured to include the actual message text as a Base-64 encoded
attachment. I was curious enough to actually decode the message. I'm
_so_ glad that large northwestern US companies have decided for us that
ASCII isn't sufficient for mail and news bodies. :P

G

Here I hope is a relevant question -

Can Use MPW on  a 68K Mac to compile source for a PowerPC Mac?

thanks,
dale

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> That's because the original poster's newsreader is apparently
> (mis)configured to include the actual message text as a Base-64 encoded
> attachment. I was curious enough to actually decode the message. I'm
> _so_ glad that large northwestern US companies have decided for us that
> ASCII isn't sufficient for mail and news bodies. :P

> G

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:40:18 -0800, dkh wrote

Quote:> Here I hope is a relevant question -

> Can Use MPW on  a 68K Mac to compile source for a PowerPC Mac?

I think so, check www.apple.com/developer and then follow the tools/MPW
links, it should tell you there. I know I used to do this a long time ago.

Cheers
Dave

Certainly. Modulo the weirdness of forks it's really just an issue of
spitting out a bytestream. You could theoretically generate ProDOS
programs in MPW if you had a compiler available that targetted the
6502.

G

That's more than just theory. Apple used to sell an entire suite of MPW
tools for 6502/65816 development including Asm, C, and Pascal.

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Quote:> Are there any freeware/opensource C++ compiler environments for MacOS 8+?
> I am new to Mac development and not familiar with developer apps.

> regards,
> dkh

Yes, check out dev.apple.com and download the Apple MPW (Macintosh
Programmer's Workshop).  It supports C, C++, and just about any programming
language you can think of. However, it's rather hard to learn, so find some
time on your hands before using it.

Hope it helps,
Jon

: > Are there any freeware/opensource C++ compiler environments for MacOS 8+?
: > I am new to Mac development and not familiar with developer apps.
:
: Yes, check out dev.apple.com and download the Apple MPW (Macintosh
: Programmer's Workshop).  It supports C, C++, and just about any programming
: language you can think of. However, it's rather hard to learn, so find some
: time on your hands before using it.

`Hard to learn' depends on where he's coming from. MPW is a
shell-editor combination. If you're used to working in a unix-like
shell environment, you'll be able to pick it up quite quickly. On the
other hand, if have no programing experience, or have only used IDEs,
you are looking at a steep learning curve.

Cheers,

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