Jump To:
Leopard Reference Library: Porting
Mac OS X provides many tools that are useful for developing applications. There are numerous ways to use these tools to port applications to Mac OS X and to port existing Mac OS X application projects to the Mac OS X developer tools.

View all Tools Reference Library.
Document Descriptions
On Off
Display

Sorted by
Title
Sort by
Resource Type
Sort by
Date
GCC Porting Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Provides guidance on how to migrate projects to new GCC releases.
Guides 2006-10-03
Jar Bundler User Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Conceptual information and a tutorial about deploying JAR-based applications as Mac OS X application bundles.
Guides 2006-05-23
Moving Your Project from CodeWarrior to Xcode (HTML)
Get started moving your project from CodeWarrior to Xcode.
Articles 2005-11-28
Porting CodeWarrior Projects to Xcode (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to move software projects from CodeWarrior to Xcode and compares the two development environments.
Guides 2006-10-26
ScriptBuildPhases (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Augmenting Project Builder build phases with scripts to do extra work or invoke other tools.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
Setting environment variables for user processes (HTML)
QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
Technical Q&As 2001-10-25
Static linking of user binaries on Mac OS X (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QA1118: Explains why static linking of user binaries is not supported on Mac OS X, and possible workarounds.
Technical Q&As 2002-02-07
Symbol Variants Release Notes (HTML)
Describes symbol variants, a way of providing multiple versions of symbols for backwards compatibility.
Release Notes 2007-10-16
UpdateXcodeSubprojects (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Updates all subprojects of an Xcode project to Xcode 2.1 format. Illustrates scripting techniques.
Sample Code 2005-06-06