Building x86 Mac code with CodeWarrior 9.4?

<jonhoyle DeleteThis @mac.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, I realize I am probably treading upon fantasy here, but...
>
> For those of us who still have CW 9.4 for Mac & Windows, the x86
> compiler creates still creates Win32 code. However, I am curious as to
> if it were possible to create x86 Mac binaries? Granted the default
> stationary is for Windows executable formats, and Mach-O is an entirely
> different format, however...
>
> Creating a file using the x86 Mac file format shouldn't be impossible.
> Secondly, instead of linking against the Win32 API code would have to
> be written to link against the Mac OS X API. Much of the ANSI standard
> libraries should already be platform agnostic. But perhaps one could
> create a Mac x86 executable starting with the CW 9.4 compiler as a
> starting point?
>
> Could this be possible?

The compiler should work, barring some difference in calling convention or
the like that can't be #pragma'ed. The problem is linking into whatever
Apple's executable format is (I doubt it's MS-compatible PEF.) You could:
write a complete linker (major reinventing of the wheel there); write a
linker plugin to wrap Apple's x86 linker, assuming the CW compiler output
was usable or could be translated; write a postlinker to read a generated
Windows-compatible binary and rewrite it into Apple format (possible, but
not something I'd lightly take on.)

As always, debugging support is an open question using any of these methods:
there will obviously never be a CW debugger for x86 Mac's, not sure what it
would take to make use of XCode / gdb.