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m.w.payne@cs.cf.ac.uk - 26 Jun 2005 16:17 GMT

Hello,

I am about to start a project to be deployed on both Macintosh and
Windows. I am considering Code Warrior, but I need to know first,
will code warrior support the new macintosh intel architecture?

Thanks for your help
Mike Payne

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Michael Ash - 26 Jun 2005 17:16 GMT

> Hello,
>
> I am about to start a project to be deployed on both Macintosh and
> Windows. I am considering Code Warrior, but I need to know first,
> will code warrior support the new macintosh intel architecture?

There isn't a lot of information out there at this point. Here's basically
what's known for certain:

- MetroWerks has made no official statement about Mac OS X x86 support.
(If I am wrong about this, I'd appreciate a pointer to a statement that
says either way.)
- MetroWerks just sold off all of their x86 compiler technology to Nokia a
few months back.

The x86 transition is big news, and you'd expect that there would be an
immediate announcement if they were going to support it. Combine their
silence with the fact that such support becomes technically impossible
without either reimplementing the compiler from scratch or buying back the
technology from Nokia for an exorbitant price, and also the fact that CW
Mac has been essentially moribund for years, and it seems pretty clear
that they're not going to be supporting x86. Xcode or some other gcc-based
IDE is the way to go.

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jollyprez - 26 Jun 2005 17:21 GMT

You should check out the codewarrior programmers' site at:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior?hl=en

I've used CW since '94, and have been following this site for over a
year. From what I can tell, Metrowerks is a mess right now. I ported my
Mac project over to XCode last year, and use CW only for maintenance of
a couple of legacy apps.

If it's cross-platform, can you use Java? If so, check out the Eclipse
IDE. If it can't be in Java, I would suggest setting up CVS and
splitting the chore between XCode on the Mac, and VC++ on Windows.
That's what I'm doing for a couple of projects.

FWIW

Jolly

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toby - 27 Jun 2005 19:58 GMT

> You should check out the codewarrior programmers' site at:
>
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> splitting the chore between XCode on the Mac, and VC++ on Windows.
> That's what I'm doing for a couple of projects.

You could also use MinGW and cross-build from Mac, although that
doesn't address debugging. Eclipse/MinGW/gdb on Windows may work.

Also, Subversion is generally a superior replacement for CVS. It is
well supported on both Windows, OS X and Linux:
http://subversion.tigris.org/

--Toby

> FWIW
>
> Jolly

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