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Portal:Mac

This portal provides an overview of development for Mac OS with Lazarus and Free Pascal. Development for Mac OS X is easy with Lazarus using the Carbon widgetset. Other widgetsets like Qt or Cocoa are supported, too, but their usage requires additional efforts. Free Pascal can also be used to develop Software for Mac OS Classic and older versions of Mac OS X.

Related topics Portals: iOS - Linux Categories: Mac OS - Mac OS X - Unix

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Development Techniques

Basic development techniques with Lazarus and Free Pascal are described here, as well as hints for special optimization approaches. OS X Programming Tips Porting from Mac Pascal Cross compiling on Mac OS X Cross compiling for Mac OS X on Linux

APIs and Headers

FPC supports several APIs on Mac OS and Mac OS X. Carbon Interface FPC and Carbon Carbon interface internals Cocoa Interface FPC PasCocoa Qt Interface Mac Target Darwin: Development for all Darwin-based Mac OS flavours (OS X, iOS and Darwin) Target MacOS: Development for Mac OS Classic MPW

Installation

This box describes installation of Lazarus and Free Pascal. Installing Lazarus on MacOS X

Special Topics

Application Bundle Mac Buttons Mac Local Procedure Parameters Mac Preferences Read and Write Mac Preferences and About Menu Mac Show Application Title, Version, and Company FPC PasCocoa/Differences objectivepascal ObjCParser MPW debugging Link on target univint

FAQs

Carbon interface FAQ