Portal:Mac

This portal provides an overview of development for Apple Silicon Macs and Intel Macs running macOS (previously marketed as Mac OS X until 2012 and OS X until 2016) with Lazarus and Free Pascal.

Development of macOS software is easy with Lazarus using the Cocoa (64 bit) widgetset. The Carbon (32 bit) widgetset is also available but only for 32 bit software and only up to macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple removed the Carbon framework from macOS 10.15 Catalina (2019) - that operating system and future versions no longer run any 32 bit software. Other widgetsets like Qt are also supported, but their use requires additional effort.

Free Pascal can also be used to develop software for PowerPC Macs, Mac OS Classic and older versions of macOS (before Tiger). Refer to the Legacy Information section at the bottom of this page.

Platform Portals: Android - Embedded - FreeBSD - iOS - Linux - Mac - WinCE - Windows

Topic Portals: New Users - Database Development - Game Development - Hardware and Robotics - HowTo Demos - Science and Technology - Web Development

Categories: Mac OS Classic - macOS - Unix - Objective Pascal - Objective C

Lazarus 2.2, macOS 12

Lazarus 2.1, macOS 10.14

Lazarus 1.0, macOS 10.5

Midi Player

Code signing

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Portal:Mac", as it stood on 2024-05-05 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.

Revision 2, last changed by WikiArchive 11-4-2026.

Edited on wiki.freepascal.org by 4 people, 2013–2024

From the official wiki's backup of 26 May 2024: who edited this page there, and when. Edits made there after that date were not recorded, and the earlier versions are not shown here; the main page says why.

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4-7-2013	Jwdietrich	First scaffold for a Mac Portal
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4-8-2013	Mischi	Add cross compiling on Mac OS X
4-8-2013	Mischi	MacOS X -> Mac OS X (minor)
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4-8-2013	Jwdietrich	Boxes included as templates. They are therefore independently editable from the main portal.
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4-27-2013	Jwdietrich
4-3-2015	Jwdietrich
6-13-2016	Jwdietrich	Applying new term "macOS", as introduced on today's WWDC
11-22-2016	Jwdietrich	Tiger
2-25-2017	Jwdietrich
3-11-2017	Jwdietrich	Clarfication
8-9-2019	Trev	Added FreeBSD platform portal entry (minor)
10-17-2019	Trev	Added macOS category (minor)
10-17-2019	Trev	Added macOS category to page (minor)
12-4-2019	Trev	Moved FAQ to left of Portal page to even up columns (minor)
12-11-2019	Trev	Added OS X category (minor)
12-12-2019	Trev	Mac OS -> Mac OS Classic (minor)
12-13-2019	Trev	Updated for Cocoa and Catalina (minor)
12-14-2019	Trev	Rationalised macOS categories (minor)
12-14-2019	Trev	Rationalised macOS categories (minor)
12-14-2019	Trev	Added ObjC category (minor)
12-16-2019	Trev	Added Portal:WinCE to portal list (minor)
12-16-2019	FTurtle	Improving sorting in categories (page will appear in categories under "M" letter)
12-16-2019	FTurtle	"M" -in "Potals", "!"-in other
12-16-2019	FTurtle	Categories moved to template
12-20-2019	Trev	Adjusted column sizes to better fit content (minor)
12-20-2019	Trev	Removed an image from gallery for more friendly mobile device format (minor)
12-21-2019	Trev	Adjusted column widths (minor)
12-24-2019	Trev	Added legacy info template
12-27-2019	Trev	Re-arranged FAQs and Legacy Info panels (minor)
1-13-2020	Trev	Added Embedded Portal entry (minor)
1-13-2020	Trev	Added all Topic Portals
1-26-2020	Trev	Moved Web Dev to topic portals (minor)
2-9-2020	Trev	Renamed "Installation" box to "Start here" to reflect inclusion of tutorials
3-5-2020	Trev	Updated topic list (minor)
3-8-2020	Trev	Added HowTo Portal (minor)
3-9-2020	Trev	Added New Users Portal to Topics Portals (minor)
3-10-2020	Trev	Updated logo file (minor)
3-14-2020	Trev	Added current macOS Lazarus IED image to gallery (minor)
5-19-2020	Trev	Added years to marketing nomenclature (minor)
5-25-2020	Trev	Reorganised topics to balance page columns (minor)
5-27-2020	Trev	Make page more mobile friendly (minor)
7-8-2020	Trev	Add Apple Annual Developer Survey blurb
7-8-2020	Trev	Apple's Annual Developer Survey 2020: update (minor)
7-31-2020	Trev	Fix spacing (minor)
7-31-2020	Trev	Fix head spacing (minor)
9-5-2020	Trev	remove Annual Apple Developer Survey banner
11-29-2020	Trev	Updated for Apple Silicon Processors; tweaked legacy info reference
11-30-2020	Trev	Tweak AS + Intel Macs reference (minor)
1-27-2021	Trev	Add M1 processor SoC designation (minor)
8-22-2021	Trev	Update currency (minor)
9-25-2021	Trev	Updated image gallery
12-30-2021	Trev	Note that Carbon is 32 bit (minor)
6-2-2022	Trev	Add PowerPC reference (minor)
5-5-2024	Trev	Remove M1 reference to Apple Silicon now that we have M2 and M3 and no doubt soon Mx+1 (minor)

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