Carbon Interface
lazarus / 10-Designer

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jcannonb · 2005-06-01 19:06

I am new to Mac programming but have used Delphi and
FreePascal/Lazarus for quite some time. I was wondering when there may
even be a workable beta version of a native Mac OS carbon interface
for lazarus so I can confidently build a GUI Mac OS X app without the
user having to have X11 installed.

Joshua Butcher
jcannonb@gmail.com

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Marc · 2005-06-02 08:26

AFAIK there is not. A while ago someone on the mailinglist announced
that he would work at it, but till so far I've nothing heard.

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felipemdc · 2005-10-18 21:17

It is being implemented slowly ... you can help testing it / adding to
it.

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Drewski · 2005-10-19 00:25

Here's an update:

Work on carbon is progressing slowly as sekel said. Currently only
very few things work.
So far Marc has done most of the work on Carbon.

TForm - Partially implemented. Basically just enough to show a form.
TEdit - A fair amount works for this but no events other than mouse
events.
TButton - Again just a partial implementation so far.
TListView - I've *barely* started on this.  The work so far is not in
SVN.

All other controls have nothing done on them. Even timers.

I've been experimenting with working on linux developing for MacOSX. I
have managed to build a crosscompiler to compile for powerpc-darwin
from i386-linux. So, currently that is what I'm doing.

Andrew
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Have an nice day

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felipemdc · 2005-10-19 03:17

What do you mean by building a crosscompiler to compile for powerpc?
You added code to Free Pascal to do that? Uau!, sounds very good. Is
it on fpc source? I would be nice if you could add this kind of stuff
to the Lazarus wiki. There is currently a tutorial on how to
crosscompile from Linux to Win32.

It would really be nice to have a native widget for Mac OS X. I would
help, but there are so few Macs on Brazil that I haven't seing one for
many years.

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Drewski · 2005-10-19 03:29

No I didn't add any code. FPC is already available for the Mac. All
you need are the cross binutils for assembling and linking. The
binutils for this are a project from odcctools. I had to make one
small change in the compiler source that had a path to a library
hardcoded into it for darwin/mac and remove -Xc from all the
Makefiles.

The command line I used to compile was:

make all CPU_TARGET=powerpc OS_TARGET=darwin OPT="-Xd -XPpowerpc-
darwin- -Fl/$HOME/darwin-root/usr/lib"