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PLAT 14 - Using MPW Pro on the Power Mac (1-June-95)

Q We recently upgraded from MPW to MPW Pro, and I am confused about MPW Pro and the Power Mac. Can we use MPW Pro to develop and debug on the Power Mac for the Power Mac?

A You can run MPW Pro on a Power Mac, just as you can on a 68K Mac. In fact, when using the pre-release MPW, you are running a native MPW Shell, along with many native tools. (The compilers, linkers, and most of the more time-consuming tools are running native.)

You can also debug right on the Power Macintosh. Use the Macintosh Debugger for PowerPC, and run it in single-machine mode. You can use the Macintosh Debugger for PowerPC in either two-machine mode (where the target PowerMac is running a very non-intrusive nub, and the controlling machine [either a Power Mac or 68K Mac] provides the user interface) or single machine mode (where the PowerMac is both the user interface and the debugger.)

Although some of the early versions of the Power Mac development tools required a two-machine debugger, this is no longer necessary. MPW Pro contains fast, high-quality native compilers (MrC is the currently recommended compiler for PowerPC development, and SCpp is the currently supported 68K compiler) and debugging tools (Macsbug is slowly becoming more aware of PowerPC architecture, but the Macintosh Debugger is the preferred debugger). SADE and SourceBug are static and are not likely to be improved in the future.

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