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Allan Hoeltje
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January 20, 2014
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Building SDK CS6 for OSX 10.9 XCode 5

  • January 20, 2014
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As a fun weekend Photoshop project I thought I'd see what it took to write a Photoshop CS6 filter plugin.  So I downloaded the CS6 SDK and opened up the Dissolve sample.  Right away I see errors about not being to open Apple headers like Dialogs.h.  I found a note from "Correct" saying to comment out all of those includes.  Next I see scores of depreciated warnings for stuff unsupported by Apple for years, such as

FSResolveAlias.  But the real killer is the fatal error: "failed to find MacTypes/MacTypes.r"

Has Adobe updated this SDK recently so that it can compile -without altering/fixing the Adobe source files- for the current MacOS?

-Allan

(P.S., been developing apps, professionally, for the Mac since 1984.)

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Allan HoeltjeAuthor
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January 23, 2014

Does anyone from Adobe follow these forums?  I can not believe that my post has not had a helpful reply by now.  Is no one developing plug-ins for CS6 on a Mac running OSX 10.9?  Am I the only one that can not get Adobe's sample code to compile on a Mac?  Maybe it is time for me to look at Gimp again.

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Anonymous
January 24, 2014

Hi Allan

From memory you have to set the target to 10.7 and use the 10.7 SDK.  If you're using a more recent version of xcode, then you'll need to copy the SDK from elsewhere (xcode 4)

See: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5818042

Hope that helps

Jamie

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Allan HoeltjeAuthor
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January 24, 2014

So, in order to develop a Photoshop plugin for the Mac I need to use XCode 4 and target OSX 10.7 -- an IDE and OS that are 3 years out of date?  That is absolutly amazing and says a lot about how Adobe feels about the Macintosh user base.  Gimp here I come!

Out of here,

-Allan

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fxtech
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January 20, 2014

Allan Hoeltje wrote:

(P.S., been developing apps, professionally, for the Mac since 1984.)

I feel your pain.

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