Building Mac Standalones from Windows

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Sarah wrote:

> As I understand it, it is not possible to build for pre-OS X Macs on 
> non-Mac platforms. The application files require resource forks which 
> other operating systems can't create. Stuffit archives (.sit) preserve 
> the resource forks once they have been created, so that they are not 
> stripped off by another OS, but if they can't be put on in the first 
> place, I'm afraid you're stuck unless you can persuade one of us 
> friendly Mac types to do the build for you :-)

Well, my idea, such as it is, is a layer that acts like a file system 
with resource forks but when all is done what is left is a .sit file.  
Or some other resource fork preserving file format.

It looks like a lot of work for a still-lots-around but outgoing OS, 
but motivated build programmers could do it.

Dar Scott