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Re: Palm Desktop Development
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Re: Palm Desktop Development


  • Subject: Re: Palm Desktop Development
  • From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 15:11:46 +0100

On 7/5/03 2:39 pm, I'm a Llama <email@hidden> wrote:

> The last post I saw on this subject was more than a year ago.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has had success developing conduits/apps accessing
> Palm Desktop data using Project Builder. I know I could use CodeWarrior, but I
> don't have the money/interest for it - I like/am familiar with Project
> Builder.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Josh

No, but I haven't tried for a while.

Apple's iSync appears to be a CFM stub conduit (built with Codewarrior)
linked against the Hotsync library which dynamically loads the "real" Mach-O
conduit, which is presumably built with gcc/PB.

It may be possible to build the same sort of stub using MPW (a free
download, but it only runs in Classic) however Palm's Hotsync library
contains C++ code and Apple don't have a standard CFM ABI for C++, so things
may not work well.

To illustrate, I built a Mach-O conduit that used CFBundle to load the CFM
Hotsync library, but CoreFoundation didn't appear to run the C++ static
constructors in the library and as a result the interesting part of the
library just returned errors. Trivial calls into the library worked though!

Building CFM stuff with MPW seemed like a lot of hard work and I never got
around to trying to build a CFM stub with MPW...

Cheers,

Chris
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