New API developer

[Anonymous]

Hello; I am a french beginning developer.

I have developed little Java application, and most of my work outside ArchiCAD was on Web Applications using Php.

These two years I have worked on complex GDL object development.
But now I have a project on the table for an API for Archicad using a part In GDL and an other part coding API. I think I could handle C or C++ but I really don't know how to start to develop an API.

Could I found some examples that I could Launch on Archicad And Compile it on a Mac without using Software like VS 2003?

Thank you for your answer

PS : I have already begin to fill the graphisoft Application Form to have My own API developer ID; But I have not done anything else

[stefan]

Rod wrote:
An announcement at our road show last evening said that GS support for PPC Mac will end at 12. Therefore from 13 on it will be Intel only.

That's sweet... My machine will be three years old then. It was the top-of-the line when I bought it (one of the last updates before the intel-upgrade). I assume that AC13 on Windows will drop support for XP and Vista by then, too?

At least, they are so kind to make the dongle cross-platform when you buy it (even if it's internally still registered for ArchiCAD Windows version, in Dutch... a language for which support was dropped at about ArchiCAD 7 or .

[Dwight]

Rod wrote:
An announcement at our road show last evening said that GS support for PPC Mac will end at 12. Therefore from 13 on it will be Intel only.

Presuming that there will actually be an Archicad 13.

Like, it might be bad luck.

Go straight to Archicad 14.

I wonder what the software world will do when all software versions enter their teens.

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Presuming that there will actually be an Archicad 13.

ArchiCAD 2009?

[Dwight]

Been done before.
They aren't the innovators but i guess they did make more versions.

[Rob]

may be ancient roman numbers would do: Archicad XIII
or talking about year 2009: Archicad MMIX

[Anonymous]

Hello,

since gcc included in Xcode is able to produce both ppc and i386 code, it would be quite appealing to produce ArchiCAD add-ons for both architectures with gcc. The only problem is, that the ppc version of ACAP_STAT.lib seems to be in a (proprietary, google did not tell?) object format of CodeWarrior, which the gnu linker (ld) doesn't understand.

Is it possible to convert this static library to the object format that ld accepts?

Jyrki

[Ralph Wessel]

jyrki.saarinen wrote:
since gcc included in Xcode is able to produce both ppc and i386 code, it would be quite appealing to produce ArchiCAD add-ons for both architectures with gcc. The only problem is, that the ppc version of ACAP_STAT.lib seems to be in a (proprietary, google did not tell?) object format of CodeWarrior, which the gnu linker (ld) doesn't understand.

Is it possible to convert this static library to the object format that ld accepts?

Sorry - that's not possible. You have to use CodeWarrior for Mac PPC development and XCode for Mactel.

[Anonymous]

Any ideas why Graphisoft won't provide libACAP_STAT.a for ppc, since CodeWarrior is now obsolete and Xcode is "the official" development platform?

Jyrki

[Ralph Wessel]

jyrki.saarinen wrote:
Any ideas why Graphisoft won't provide libACAP_STAT.a for ppc, since CodeWarrior is now obsolete and Xcode is "the official" development platform?

Unfortunately it isn't a simple change to make ArchiCAD and the relevant libraries build for PPC with XCode, and I believe it would be an expensive task which would significantly hamper development of new/improved features in ArchiCAD.

This would be OK if the PPC platform was on ongoing concern, but of course Apple has made a complete transition to Intel and they haven't sold PPC-based Macs for some time now. I think GS has already announced that ArchiCAD development on PPC Macs will cease after the next version (don't quote me on that - I can't remember if there was an official statement to that effect).

[Karl Ottenstein]

Ralph wrote:
I think GS has already announced that ArchiCAD development on PPC Macs will cease after the next version (don't quote me on that - I can't remember if there was an official statement to that effect).

http://www.graphisoft.com/company/press_zone/ppcout.html

Karl