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LNC Episode 037: Porting Large Applications to the Mac platform

30 December 2008 2,055 views 2 Comments

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Scotty interviews Mike Taylor on porting large applications to the Mac platform

Episode Information
Running Time: 1 hr 21 mins 12 secs
Download Size: 38MB

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Episode 37 (Enhanced)

Show Notes

Guest: Mike Taylor
Mikes Blog: http://www.codeshorts.ca/
Hey Mac Software: http://heymacsoftware.com/

 

 

 

Show Content

  • Introduction
  • Questions to ask before considering a port
  • Cocoa or Carbon and Why?
  • Mac C++ Compilers
  • Objective C++
  • Cross Platform Build Systems
  • Main Issues for porting applications
  • Develop Using Scripting Languages
  • Memory Management
  • User Interfaces
  • Installation
  • Frameworks
  • Help
  • Starting a cross platform app from scratch 

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2 Comments »

  • gevik said:

    Thank you Scotty and Mike. This was a very enlightening episode. It was very interesting to find out how the big boys are developing, packaging, and releasing big applications. I think many of the topics discussed here provide very useful information for the (cross platform) indies.

    # 6 January 2009 at 10:54 am
  • Scotty (author) said:

    Nokia have announced that its Qt cross-platform user interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the open source LGPL version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009.

    In addition:

    Qt source code repositories will be made publicly available and will encourage contributions from desktop and embedded developer communities.

    Service offerings for Qt will be expanded to ensure that all Qt development projects can have access to the same levels of support, independent of the selected license.

    Read about it at http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing

    # 14 January 2009 at 11:03 pm