What is CodeWarrior Professional Release 1?

As operating systems evolve, programming tools must evolve along with them. That’s been a difficult task this past year, with Mac OS 8, Rhapsody, Yellow, and Blue Boxes, and the rise of Java as a main¬ stream language. But Metrowerks’ release of CodeWarrior Professional 1.0, the follow-on to CodeWarrior 11, isn’t a matter of playing catch-up; it’s an ambitious attempt to create a Mac programming environment with a promising commercial future.

CodeWarrior Professional includes the current versions of Metrowerks’ C, C++, Pascal, and Java compilers in an updated Integrated Development Environment, Because IDE 2.0 lets you select Java machines, Windows 95 and NT systems, and Macs as targets of the same project, CodeWarrior Pro effectively turns a Power Mac into a near-universal development system, The new environment also supports subprojects and multiple open projects, making it easier to organize reusable program parts, and finally offers fat binary (680X0 and PowerPC) as a project target. Most tool bars are now customizable; the upgraded debugger works with Windows, Java, and Mac applications; and interfaces throughout the program meet Apple’s "gray-scale appearance” spec for Mac OS 8.

The development environment and documentation (including almost a dozen online books) set new high standards, but you can expect to raise your own standards as well. Older Pascal code will likely generate some error messages, for example, and Metrowerks 5 Java Virtual Machine has both known and as-yet-undiscovered bugs, though the new IDE is great for managing Java projects (see “Something’s Brewing”). Even C++ projects developed in CodeWarrior 11 may need adjusting to adapt to the changing details of the new version’s library arrangement, and the new Project Converter utility may or may not do that automatically. Because the converters are still in the development stage, Mac C++ code generally won’t work in Windows projects. Missing entirely is a Windows version of Constructor, a graphical developer’s tool.

Seiter, Charles. (October 1997). CodeWarrior Professional. Macworld. (pg. 64). 

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Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver