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Re: Porting from Windows to Mac
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Re: Porting from Windows to Mac


  • Subject: Re: Porting from Windows to Mac
  • From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:38:53 -0600
  • Thread-topic: Porting from Windows to Mac

> Do I have any
> alternative for MFC in MAC OS?

No.

> I have gone through some posting on Apple lists and I found that there
> are 2 cross-platform tools Power Plant and Code Warrior.

CodeWarrior was a suite of tools, which was discontinued years ago, and
never supported Intel Macs.

PowerPlant was their framework, which was originally Mac-specific, later
ported to Windows, discontinued by them but still supported by some
long-time users, not of much use in porting MFC to Mac.

In fact, there's not really anything of much use in porting MFC to Mac. In
order to be cross-platform, and app needs to be designed with that goal in
mind. If this app was not so designed, then you may be the one who gets to
refactor it.

Whether you use something like wxWindows or QT, or separate UI from the
application functionality and reimplement the UI in Cocoa or Carbon, depends
on the details of the app.

***DO NOT*** expect that it's merely a matter of finding the corresponding
Mac API call for each Windows API call--the differences run deeper than
that. In order to be successful, you ***WILL*** have to learn to be a Mac
developer, period, no shortcuts.

--
Scott Ribe
email@hidden
http://www.killerbytes.com/
(303) 722-0567 voice


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