• The Family Tree

• Mac OS X and Darwin

• What Macintosh Users Expect

• The Mac OS X Command-Line Environment

• Installing the Mac OS X Developer Tools

• Building Makefile Projects With Xcode

• Windowing Environment Considerations

• Working with 64-bit Software

• Using GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Autoheader

• Compiling for Multiple CPU Architectures

• Conditional Compilation on Mac OS X

• Choosing a Default Compiler

• Setting Compiler Flags

• Understanding Two-Level Namespaces

• Executable Format

• Dynamic Libraries and Plug-ins

• Bundles

• Choosing a Native Application Environment

• Lower-Level Graphics Technologies

• What Kind of Application Are You Porting?

• How Well Does It Need to Integrate With Mac OS X?

• Does Your Application Require Cross-Platform Functionality?

• Choosing a UNIX Graphical Environment

• X11R6

• Tcl/Tk

• Qt

• GTK+/GTKmm

• wxWidgets

• Wrapping a Command Line Application with a GUI Interface

• How Mac OS X File I/O Works

• How Mac OS X Device I/O Works

• File System Organization

• How Mac OS Networking Works

• Bundles vs. Installers

• Packaging Basics

• Creating Disk Images Programmatically Using hdiutil

• Tell the World About It

• AppleScript and AppleScript Studio

• Audio Architecture

• Boot Sequence

• Configuration Files

• Device Drivers

• The File System

• The Kernel

• Open Directory and the dscl Tool

• Printing (CUPS)

• Bonjour

• Scripting Languages

• Security and Security Services

• What is Portability?

• Using Abstraction Layers

• Using Plug-Ins and Libraries Effectively

• Architectural Portability