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System 6 development and CodeWarrior
Posted by: atommclain on 2025-05-15 12:30:27 If I want to develop an application that targets System 6 what version of CodeWarrior should I be using ? I have an old open source which was originally targeted for MacOS 7+ that makes a lot of C library calls (fcntl, etc) that I would like to get running on System 6. I have been noodling around with CodeWarrior Pro 6 which has the source available for its C library and you can compile it yourself. But one thing I've noticed is that I'm pretty sure it doesn't support System 6 since it makes Toolbox calls that are not available on System 6 and causes crashes. Thanks!
Posted by: Snial on 2025-05-15 13:29:40 If I want to develop an application that targets System 6 what version of CodeWarrior should I be using ? I have an old open source which was originally targeted for MacOS 7+ that makes a lot of C library calls (fcntl, etc) that I would like to get running on System 6. I have been noodling around with CodeWarrior Pro 6 which has the source available for its C library and you can compile it yourself. But one thing I've noticed is that I'm pretty sure it doesn't support System 6 since it makes Toolbox calls that are not available on System 6 and causes crashes. Thanks! Check out @David Cook 's thread on coding all the way down to System 1 on CW. https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/writing-an-application-that-runs-in-mac-os-system-1-using-codewarrior-gold-11.47511/ I like CW & it's more popular on the 68kmla, but personally I'd use THINK C for System 6 coding, because it's a simpler environment. Series: C Programming on System 6 - joshua stein
Posted by: atommclain on 2025-05-15 17:06:29 Thanks Snial, I will give it a whirl!
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