[Lazarus] 64-bit Migration (fpc/laz)

[Phil Hess]

Yes, and this topic covers universal binaries too:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Carbon_Interface

Thanks.

-Phil

----- "London Disney" <disney.london at googlemail.com> wrote:

> @Phil
> 
> So do you mean that there is another online document for Carbon
> bindings as well ?
> 
> May be
> 
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Carbon_interface_internals
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Phil Hess < macpgmr at fastermac.net >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> (a) through (c) might better be directed to the FPC developers.
> 
> Re. (d), Lazarus currently uses the Carbon frameworks for its GUI on
> Mac. A new Cocoa-based widgetset has been started. This new widgetset
> uses the new Objective C support in FPC:
> 
> 
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_PasCocoa
> 
> Note this is much more sophisticated and powerful than the Win API,
> which is just a "flat" function-based interface. With the ObjC
> support, the Cocoa classes can be used directly.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- "London Disney" < disney.london at googlemail.com > wrote:
> 
> > Could anyone direct me to the right person for these please? Some of
> > them
> > are FPC-user related vs. -developer related but I like to ask them
> all
> > in one
> > post.
> >
> > a) How do we use fpc/laz to make Mach-O fat binaries?
> > b) Which versions was the first to support Intel Macs and which
> > version was the first to support G5 64-bit PPC ?
> > c) How did the community made a tranition to G5 as well as
> > the Intel Macs in terms of related modifications in the
> > original FPC compilers (which sections in general, was it
> > the fpc itself or did you use other compilers, etc )?
> > d) I am still not used to Cocoa and Objective-C (Intel Leopard 10.5)
> > however it makes sense for me to ask how does fpc/laz link to
> > the Cocoa libraries/frameworks? So for instance under
> > WinTel there's the C/C++ DLLs and the compiler can
> > use the right calling conventions (WIN_API) to coimmunicate
> > with them (as an interface) -- so what's the mechanism
> > for MacOSX ? LCL does use Cocoa doesn't it ? and if
> > I'm not wrong Cocoa is mostly or totally in ObjC...
> >
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> 
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