• The Family Tree

• • BSD

• • Mach

• • NEXTSTEP

• • Earlier Version of the Mac OS

• Mac OS X and Darwin

• What Macintosh Users Expect

• Benefits of Porting to Mac OS X

• Responsibilities of Porting to Mac OS X

• The Mac OS X Command-Line Environment

• Installing the Mac OS X Developer Tools

• Building Makefile Projects With Xcode

• Windowing Environment Considerations

• Working with 64-bit Software

• Using GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Autoheader

• Compiling for Multiple CPU Architectures

• Cross-Compiling a Self-Bootstrapping Tool

• Conditional Compilation on Mac OS X

• Choosing a Default Compiler

• Using the gcc_select Command

• Setting Compiler Flags

• Understanding Two-Level Namespaces

• Executable Format

• Dynamic Libraries and Plug-ins

• Using Dynamic Libraries at Link Time

• Using Dynamic Libraries Programmatically

• Compiling Dynamic Libraries and Plugins

• Bundles

• Application Bundles

• Frameworks

• For More Information

• Choosing a Native Application Environment

• Cocoa

• Benefits of Cocoa Development

• Drawbacks of Cocoa Development

• Example: Calling C or C++ Code With Cocoa

• Java

• Benefits of Java Development

• Drawbacks of Java Development

• Carbon

• Benefits of Carbon Development

• Drawbacks of Carbon Development

• Lower-Level Graphics Technologies

• Quartz

• Benefits of using Quartz

• Drawbacks to using Quartz

• OpenGL

• Benefits of using OpenGL

• Drawbacks to using OpenGL

• QuickTime

• Benefits of using QuickTime

• Drawbacks to using QuickTime

• What Kind of Application Are You Porting?

• How Well Does It Need to Integrate With Mac OS X?

• Does Your Application Require Cross-Platform Functionality?

• Choosing a UNIX Graphical Environment

• X11R6

• Benefits of X11R6 Development

• Drawbacks of X11R6 Development

• Tcl/Tk

• Benefits of Tk Development

• Drawbacks of Tk Development

• Qt

• Benefits of Qt Development

• Drawbacks in Qt Development

• GTK+/GTKmm

• Benefits of GTK+/GTKmm Development

• Drawbacks in GTK+/GTKmm Development

• wxWidgets

• Wrapping a Command Line Application with a GUI Interface

• Choosing a Wrapping Method

• File Access Considerations

• For More Information

• How Mac OS X File I/O Works

• Using Carbon APIs for File I/O

• Using Cocoa APIs for File I/O

• Presenting File Open and Save Dialog Boxes

• How Mac OS X Device I/O Works

• File System Organization

• How Mac OS Networking Works

• Bundles vs. Installers

• Packaging Basics

• Disk Utility (or Disk Copy)

• Creating Disk Images Programmatically Using hdiutil

• Tell the World About It

• AppleScript and AppleScript Studio

• Audio Architecture

• Boot Sequence

• Configuration Files

• Device Drivers

• The File System

• File-System Structure and Visibility

• Supported File-System Types

• The Kernel

• Open Directory and the dscl Tool

• Example: Adding a User From the Command Line

• Printing (CUPS)

• Bonjour

• Scripting Languages

• Security and Security Services

• Role-Based Authentication

• What is Portability?

• Using Abstraction Layers

• Avoid Conditionalizing Code

• GUI Abstraction Issues

• Other General Rules

• Using Plug-Ins and Libraries Effectively

• Designing a Plug-In Architecture

• Simplicity

• Extensibility

• Nesting Modules for Shared Functionality

• Example: Database Support

• Architectural Portability