What is CodeWarrior 7 Gold?

Despite CodeWarrior's position as the premier programming tool for the Macintosh, this is the first time Macworld has reviewed it; Metrowerks produces new compiler versions faster than we can print the magazine. In keeping with this trend, CodeWarrior 8 will have shipped by the time you read this review.

But don’t judge CodeWarriors importance bv its lack of coverage here. In early 1994, Power Mac developers called it “the compiler that saved Apple” because CodeWarrior let them get products to market in time for the first wave of 601-based Power PCs. The availability of key software packages at first launch was important in persuading hesitant consumers that a new incarnation of the Mac was viable.

The Package

The CodeWarrior Gold 7 package contains a complete suite of tools. The full installation, with class libraries and documentation, takes a whopping 250MB of hard drive space, but a minimal installation can fit into 12MB. A companion product, CodeWarrior Bronze, offers a $99 680X0-only development environment.

CodeWarrior Gold 7 includes C/C++ compilers for 680X0 Macs and Power Macs as well as support for a generation of Windows 95 X86 and Windows NT X86 binaries, including compilers and Microsoft Foundation Classes. CodeWarrior also includes Object Pascal and extensive support for converting older Think Pascal code, an important part of the Mac programming scene. The complete development kit supports General Magic's Magic Cap, a futuristic language for personal digital assistants from Sony and Motorola.

All languages run under the CodeWarrior integrated development environment (IDE), or in a Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW) shell. For quick-starting projects, CodeWarrior comes with both the MacApp and MacApp2PPC application frameworks and Metrowerks, own PowerPlant, a mixed skeleton-application/class-library package. Metrowerks also provides its own debugger, a profiler, and a memory-analysis tool called ZoneRanger.

Seiter, Charles. (March 1996). CodeWarrior Gold 7. Macworld. (pg. 69).

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Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II