Mac/Apple Programming (Page 1 of 2)

Isn't the mac based on Unix?
If it is, Im sure you can write some programs in linux and they will work on Macs. However, because the Mac architecture is proprietery, it might not work as expected. Also, I belive the OSX GUI is proprietery and you need a special SDK for that.

for the Record- under the hood of OX-X is FreeBSD.

Best place to start is apple itself:
http://developer.apple.com/

and tools:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentatio … TP30000415

is there any software in windows that we can do apple programming?

nothing is needed?

Quessing compiler like Codewarrior and using C...or maybe Java

If you read through the developement links I posted above, you may get a better idea of what is involved.

I'm also wondering WHY you would code on one platform for another....how the heck would you test it???

I am learning Java and C++

nix?? can you point me in the direction to learn about it

*nix means Unix/Linux. Because the backbone of OSX is BSD, which is a variant of Unix, You need to learn shell comands as well

Well- wtf i was thinking was it seems you have specific items you want to program. Not specific programming resources, but resources to writing to your task. I seriously doubt you will find an whitepapaers posted on these topics, or any "how to write a virus program" websites. Just seems you want a "quick" solution to a what will be a very long term project.

In addition, I'm slightly skeptical (perhaps paranoid) about people focusing on ftp, virus software, messaging. Three different "concepts" that generally only come together for virus/worm writing. Sorry- but my first thought was this is a wanna be hacker.

In my opinion, if you're serious, you first decide on language you want to focus on (which I guess is C/C++). And you'll learn all you can about, by reading topics (ie the google reference), visiting developer forums (again ie the google reference), and by doing (doing what?- "hello world", first application compiled, windowing, API to the OS, etc.). Granted some here can point you to some some good reference points, but you'll need to do the digging.

As specific links to "how to write a xxxxx program". Not gonna find it. I think you need to decide what the program is to do, and incorporate that into your program. For example- FTP is gonna need to communicate with other computers of various OS's- so one would need to learn that. Will be listing files- will need to learn that. etc...

Sorry if I offended you, perhaps just tired of the "save me a bunch of time by telling me how to do this" generation on the internet these days. I saw this thread heading right down that path. Again, my apologies if incorrect.

Macs dont use exe files.

no, im pretty sure the use "./". It may look all nice front end, but deep down, its all unix.

When you execute in command line, you use "./".
Example: "./configure"

And yea, I think I did over emphisize the the *nix Part.