Great things to come

Right now I’m busy developing a new Parcel Calculator release (which actually incorporates tons of cool features) but I am also gathering information for some new tutorials. One will explain how to write a command line utility in portable C and the usage of Mac OS X as cross-compilation platform, I mentioned this in an earlier post. There are some great things on the way, can you feel it in the air?

pcp (Parcel Calculator Portable)

I was gathering information for a “Portability and Cross-Compilation under Mac OS X” tutorial when I came to the conclusion to create a portable version of my Objective-C / Cocoa project Parcel Calculator. Nothing bloated, just a command line utility providing Parcel Calculator’s most common features to users of other platforms than Mac OS X. I decided to use C syntax for this purpose. C is still one of the most popular programming languages and there are very few computer architectures without a C compiler. A standards-compliant and portably written C program can be compiled for a very wide variety of platforms and operating systems with little or no change to it’s source code. So the idea behind was to implement as much portable C programming knowledge as possible to the project’s codebase while keeping it simple and understandable.

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