Posted on Wednesday 30 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Apple has posted a guide on moving a project from CodeWarrior to Xcode which every Mac developer should read in order to get ready for Intel Macs next year (as early as January as the latest rumors suggest).
As Apple transitions the Mac platform to include the Intel architecture, software developers who have been using the CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are moving their applications to the Xcode IDE. The reason is simple: by moving existing CodeWarrior applications to Apple’s Xcode, they can create universal binaries—applications that include executable code that runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers. Developers using Xcode are able to compile their applications to work on Intel-based as well as PowerPC-based Macs.
If you currently use CodeWarrior, you will find that porting your application to Xcode opens up new opportunities while providing a sophisticated development environment that is comfortable to use, and relatively easy to learn. This article can help you get started: it looks at some of the top-level issues involved, offers some guidance on how to proceed, and discusses some issues that you may encounter when you begin the process. It can help you as a CodeWarrior developer understand what you need to know so that you can move your C/C++/Objective-C application to Xcode quickly and without disruption to your work flow.
