[sukes]

Hello,

I'm just getting started with Mac Programming and was wondering, can I not use Project Builder to build os9 carbon apps? I am a little confused since the examples at apple.com that I downloaded has an os9 executable and says that all examples posted after the release of OSX should be built using PB.... however, when I build it using PB it works fine on osX but when I try to run it on os9.1 the app isn't even recognized as an app.... Do I need to get CodeWorrior or something?

Coming from a unix background, I'd rather do everything using the shell but if I have to use something like codewarrior thats that....

Well. thanks in advance...

[Angus_D]

Project Builder is just basically a pretty front-end to gcc, that famous open-source compiler. gcc compiles only to Mach-O, the native executable format of OS X. OS 9 does not recognise Mach-O, instead it uses CFM/PEF executables.

CodeWarrior currently only compiles to CFM, much to the annoyance of various people (Mach-O is available as an early preview, along with Cocoa support). If you want to do Carbon development on OS X that also runs on OS 9, then you'll have to use CW, I'm afraid -- otherwise you could always try MPW, Apple's free IDE for OS 9.

[aleph_null]

(Note that with a few exceptions, you should be able to use the same code with both compilers. Link to "Carbon.framework" in PB and CarbonLib in CW.)