Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / June 2005

We were told that there would be a big announcement about CodeWarrior
10 during the week of WWDC.  Well, here we are on the last day, and I
haven't seen any announcement yet.  I went to Metrowerks' web site to
check, just in case I missed it, and there was a press release on

With Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference coming up next week,
Metrowerks' plans for CodeWarrior 10 is at a Do-or-Die moment.  After
snubbing Mac developers at last year's WWDC, widespread defection has
taken place with the Mac community embracing Xcode.  Assuming it isn't

While this newsgroup is still alive, I might as well post my question
here.  I have been trying unsuccessfully to install CW9 on a PC.  CW 9,
laucches, complains about the expired/invalid license, and then quits on
me without giving me a chance to enter my code.  I have mailed ...

I've got a fair number of shipping products that are based on PowerPlant,
and at least some of them people are probably going to want updated for OS
X86. I'm sure there's at least some other people here in the same boat.
Legally speaking, can we feel free to rip the PowerPlant ...

On Tuesday, I finally decided to get over with it and switch from CW9
to XCode. Now I am at the point where everything compiles fine, but the
linker complains about the following symbols being undefined:
std::__default_alloc_template<true, 0>::deallocate(void*, unsigned

How about a commitment from Apple that, in the event that they can no longer
maintain / extend the MacOS codebase, it will all be GPL-ed?
- Steve wants us to invest in his little project. He needs to risk
something too (they won't repo his Gulfstream or fire him from Pixar if

I did a quick Froogle search and found that CodeWarrior 9 for Windows
is still available (for those still inetrested) at a couple of places.
I mention it here since I know that there are probably very few sources
left for those individuals:

I am going from CW 9.4 panther to CW 9.5 Tiger and can't seem to find
the libraries that solve the following link errors.
Link Error   : undefined: 'std::__add_facet(const std::locale&,unsigned
long,void*,const std::locale::facet*&)' (code)

I don't know what changed, but suddenly any attempt to run a Java app
from inside CW, instead of launching Terminal and outputting the
command line stuff there, instead launches BBEdit and dumps the command
line info in the new BBEdit window.

 When compiling for Mach-O with CW 9.5, I get errors like this:
#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
#include <typeinfo>
int main()

After converting a Mach-O project from CW8.3 to CW9.5 I get the
following errors:
// Error 1:
Error   : undefined identifier 'NSIG'

Although maybe we'll see otherwise, it does seem like CW's future is
pretty bleak. I've been using CW since CW 9 ( before Pro 1 ) and have
used or bought most versions since. At the moment I'm using CW 8.3,
which seems to work fine for CFM on Tiger, and I'm pretty glad I didn't

Was the sale of Metrowerks x86 compiler technology related to the
fact that Apple chose to go with the Intel architecture?  
By the way, who purchased it?

I've been using Eclipse for a while for Python and prefer it to XCode.
Has anyone tried the C++ tools?
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
The FAQ says

Before this year, an announcement like this would have been great for
Metrowerks, since they had always had both the PPC and x86 compilers.
In fact, it's hard to imagine a better company to be in position for
this than Metrowerks itself, having had both back-end compilers!