Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2004

I've searched the newsgroup for threads related to CALL_ON_LOAD,
CALL_ON_MODULE_BIND, etc. but have not found an answer to my question.
If anyone can help it will be appreciated.
Using CW 9.1 on OS X 10.3, XCode 1.1, 10.3.0SDK

Passing the --version argument to /usr/bin/as in OS X
causes it to hang:
% /usr/bin/as --version
Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-498.obj~14, GNU assembler version 1.38

I'm trying to compile my first carbon program on a iMac using OS9 and
MPW. The code compiles, but the linker complains about unresolved
external references and lists - not really surprizingly - all carbon
API calls I use.

I am getting an Undefined Symbol error at link time in Xcode with no
undefined symbols listed.  I don't know what to fix and I don't know
where to start.  The detailed compiler/linker window pane spit out
the following but I don't know how to read it.  Can anyone spot the

I am still new to Xcode, having come from using CodeWarrior, and am
building the CocoaMySQL application from the source to get my feet wet.
I'm a little unfamiliar with the layout of the new IDE.
The build command in the project file is telling me it can't find the

i am trying to compile an application that i onced wrote for linux.
it uses sdl and opengl (including glut).
i installed sdl libraries and headers using fink.
also added '-objc' option to g++ (it helped with one problem).

  Last year I was an MVS (OS/390) Systems Programmer - this year I'm an
admin for Sun Solaris, so please be gentle :-).
  I've written a ISC dhcpd sanity checker/data extractor/static host
verifier in C to run as a standard tool on MacOS X 10.3.5/GCC 3.3 under

We want to implement simple socket input in our software. We want to
listen to a port for incoming connection and receive an XML file, do
some processing, return an response code, and listen to the next
request. We want to use a minimalistic approach, so we are not sure

Hi, I'm trying to play the same QuickTime movie in two different
NSMovieViews simultaneously, so that they are synchronized. However, as soon
as I use the setMovie: method on the second view, the first view loses it
(although the movie itself continues to play in the new window). ...

If I have a file that's 900 bytes long on an HFS+ disk, the Finder
indicates 4KB on disk.  Move it to UFS and it indicates 1KB on disk.
However various API calls I've tried all return 900 in this case.  
Presumably if I want the larger Finder-indicated numbers, I need to get

Hidey-ho!
I'm no longer a paid developer and thus only one of the "freebie" ADC
members. No more DVDs, no more free phone calls. Oh, how what we gain
too easily we value.....whatever.

i've noticed that the shell variable COLUMNS get set correctly in the
macosx shell.  if i set a terminal window to 120 columns, then type
"echo $COLUMNS" at the prompt, it will print 120, just as i'd expect.
so now i'd like to make use of that value in my command-line programs,

Does anyone know where I can find a MD5 implementation written in ppc
assembly?  I'd try to write it myself if I knew ppc assembly better.
I also searched for altivec implementations but did not find anything
that publicly disclosed the source code.  If anyone knows where I can

Hello. I hope this is the right place for my question. It's about
python, but it is OS X specific, and in python forums noone could help
me yet. I tried to do a Python 2.3.4 framework installation on my Mac OS
X 10.3.5. I configured as described in the ReadMe:

i tried to compile a unix application that uses X11.
The "./configure; make; suso make install" was okay without any error.
But when i try to start one of the compiled test programs, i get the
following error: