Re: [Openexr-devel] OT: Photoshop plugins on the mac

[Chris Cox]

At 5:54 PM +0000 1/13/05, Ciaran Wills wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:21, Paul Schneider wrote:
> >  Hi, Ciaran,
> >
> >  there are two formats of object code supported on OS X - CFM, which is
> >  inherited from OS 9, and mach-O, which is inherited from NeXT. 
> >  Photoshop plugins must currently be CFM, but Xcode/ProjectBuilder/gcc
> >  only produce mach-O binaries.  So, CodeWarrior is required for building
> >  Photoshop plugins.
>
> Ah, but my hopes were raised by Chris Cox saying "BTW - XCode and GCC is
> possible, but a LOT more pain than they're worth." in an Adobe forum.
> Chris, I know you're on this list - care to comment? ;)

You can do it - but the binding code for a Mach-0 plugin to work is 
PAINFUL at best.
(Darrin summarized part of the pain)

Apple did it once for a technology demonstration.  But that's all 
that's been done.

Chris