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- In article <3j797d$laf@beta.inc.net>, syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust) wrote:
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- > Another interesting possibility is the PC-hosted Mac cross-compiler for
- > Visual C, which should be out soon. You take the same code you used for
- > WinNT Intel/MIPS/Alpha, and create an executable that runs on a 68000-based
- > Macintosh.
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- I have heard of some problems using visual c++ to cross compile win stuff
- for the mac. Speed. It is apparently EXTREMELY inefficient for porting
- stuff across platforms. A case in point is apparently word 6.0 for the pc
- vs. mac. the mac version ran anywhere from 2 to 16 times slower on the
- powermac than it did on a comperable pentium system. Back then microsoft
- said it was apples fault, but last month they finally admitted to some
- performace problems in their porting software and are getting ready to
- release a patch.
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- There was an article in one of the mac programmer newsgroups that told of
- another porting package which is very expensive, is very difficult to use
- (they said it takes a lot of hand holding by the company that sells it)
- and that it works extremely efficiently. They gave as an example, fractal
- design painter 3.0 for windows and mac. That company also offers porting
- services if you don't want to do the port yourself
-
- I doubt that lightwave will ever be ported to the mac (long, sad sigh).
- Probably us mac users will simply have to use electrogig's software
- instead (currently being ported). God only knows what they will wish to
- charge.
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- Shawn Joyce
- Joyces@acm.org
- http://info.acm.org/~joyces/homepage.html
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