Comments on: Last Call for CodeWarrior, Max/MSP Externals and Xcode

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:45:49 +0000

Well, the reason you’d want a full-blown IDE like Xcode is that self-coded externals are neither small nor simple. They require lots of dependencies. Using Xcode allows you to code for both PowerPC and Intel processors and let Cycling ‘74 do the heavy lifting by using their template and changing only what you need. On Windows, you have the use of something like Visual Studio for the same job.

By: name not required

name not required — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:32:21 +0000

the question is, why would anyone like to use XCode for
making max objects?

while i can understand how XCode can be more interesting
than codewarrior for making GUIs or compiling huhge applications
or plug-ins, its use for making usually small and simple documents
for other programming enviroments such as MAX/Msp is quite
limited.
surely it can be helpful to create universal binaries without much headache, then again do not forget that (normally) any Max binary
object developer will also need a windwos version anyway …

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:43:14 +0000

Ah-hah.

Now they want a beta password to download. (Earlier today and through the week it just didn’t work at all.) And it doesn’t appear to work with Jitter, anyway.

So my “don’t throw away your CodeWarrior just yet” advice still holds (and will continue to do so for anyone wanting greater backward compatibility).

By: Varian Allen

Varian Allen — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:23:32 +0000

It’s right here, Sir.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:06:25 +0000

Hmmmmm . . . I can’t get the new Universal Binary SDK to download from that page. And now it looks like c74 removed it from the wiki? Hmmmm . . . :)

Researching further.

Vallen, wherever you are, any thoughts?

By: vallen

vallen — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:13:31 +0000

You can, in fact, use Xcode for creating externals. :]