Carbon Interface

What you need

The Carbon widgetset is in an early stage of development. Fully functional Lazarus IDE on MacOS X is strongly recommended. For instructions see Installing Lazarus on MacOS X.

Getting a carbonproof Lazarus

• Install SVN for MacOS X: A good package is provided by Martin Ott.
• Then follow Installing_Lazarus#Downloading_Lazarus_SVN

• Start Lazarus. The IDE will start with a new project with an empty form. Save this project under a name of your choice. In the following examples we assume this to be /Users/<yourUsername>/pascal/test/project1.lpi

Compiling the Carbon Interface

We now assume your Lazarus directory is located at /Users/<yourUsername>/pascal/lazarus/

• Start Lazarus.
• Set Environment>Environment Options>Files>Lazarus Directory to /Users/<yourUsername>/pascal/lazarus/
• Set Tools>Configure "Build Lazarus"> to

• Tools>Build Lazarus -- This will compile the Carbon Interface and put the .ppu files into /Users/<yourUsername>/pascal/lazarus/lcl/units/powerpc-darwin and /Users/<yourUsername>/pascal/lazarus/lcl/units/powerpc-darwin/carbon

Your first native Carbon App

Compiler Options

Set Project > Compiler Options > Paths > LCL Widget Type to carbon

Set Project > Compiler Options > Linkink > Options Check Pass Options to the Linker

and type in the edit field:

-framework carbon