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Develop software for Macintel or PowerPC?
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<blockquote data-quote="sekelsenmat" data-source="post: 213906"><p>Acctually this is much trickier then it seams. Just any output/input operation to files that does low-level reading, like word per word reading, needs to be fixed for PowerPC. Not a problem for me, as all I/O operations I need are already ported by the Free Pascal people =)</p><p></p><p>Oh, and I do use some very specific system APIs, like for powerful multimonitor support, and the system tray. I will need to rewrite those.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, the application is already written on Lazarus, a cross-platform and open source implementation of Borland Delphi IDE. You can see a screenshot here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lazarus_0.9.7.PNG" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lazarus_0.9.7.PNG</a></p><p></p><p>So my plan isn't really to rewrite, but rather just recompile on the target =)</p><p></p><p>Of course, not everything is perfect, so I will need to rewrite some platform dependent parts of my application. I will probably be using Carbon for those parts.</p><p></p><p>To produce a Universal Binarie with Free Pascal I will need to setup a cross-compiler. This isn't hard, but takes time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I will probably be using mostly free software like Open Office, Firefox, Lazarus, so not much of a problem.</p><p></p><p>The price is a concern =( I heard the intel version is much more expensive.</p><p></p><p>thanks a lot</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sekelsenmat, post: 213906"] Acctually this is much trickier then it seams. Just any output/input operation to files that does low-level reading, like word per word reading, needs to be fixed for PowerPC. Not a problem for me, as all I/O operations I need are already ported by the Free Pascal people =) Oh, and I do use some very specific system APIs, like for powerful multimonitor support, and the system tray. I will need to rewrite those. Well, the application is already written on Lazarus, a cross-platform and open source implementation of Borland Delphi IDE. You can see a screenshot here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lazarus_0.9.7.PNG[/url] So my plan isn't really to rewrite, but rather just recompile on the target =) Of course, not everything is perfect, so I will need to rewrite some platform dependent parts of my application. I will probably be using Carbon for those parts. To produce a Universal Binarie with Free Pascal I will need to setup a cross-compiler. This isn't hard, but takes time. I will probably be using mostly free software like Open Office, Firefox, Lazarus, so not much of a problem. The price is a concern =( I heard the intel version is much more expensive. thanks a lot [/QUOTE]
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