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Started by Spintwo July 06, 2004 03:44 PM

2 comments, last by GameDev.net 19 years, 9 months ago

Spintwo

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July 06, 2004 03:44 PM

In Mac programming, more specifically, in C++, the syntax and everything is the same isn't it (assuming you don't use windows specifics like the sleep(); function and msftcon.h, etc.)?

ApochPiQ

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July 06, 2004 03:51 PM

C++ is platform independent by itself. Any platform that has a compiler for C++ can handle the platform independent aspects of C++. Of course like you said OS-specific (e.g. Windows-specific) functions and libraries won't work on other platforms, but the language itself is identical no matter what the platform is.

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igni ferroque

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July 06, 2004 06:55 PM

sleep() is a POSIX function ;)

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Anonymous

July 06, 2004 07:09 PM

Mac OS X supports a lot of API's. The main windowing API's however are Carbon and Cocoa. Carbon is a C based API that meshes just fine with C++. Cocoa is an Objective-C based API that can work well with C++. You just have to turn on the compiler flags for Objective-C++ and make sure you follow the meshing rules. It's all documented... somewhere.