Are there any macOS framework references for C?

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Created Dec ’23

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Im having difficulty trying to find C references for the functions and their inputs for the frameworks inside of /System/Library/Frameworks/. Whenever I search it up online I can only get documentation for usage in Swift and Obj-C.

I'm trying to link to Carbon.framework in C++ but I can't seem to find any references for the actual funtions I can use. This seems to be across all of the frameworks and the closest I found to a source of refrences was the documentation archive but none of it seems to show the actual references.

If anyone has a link to any sort of refrences of any kind then please link them 🥰

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MobileTen OP

Dec ’23

You're not going find much of anything on Carbon due to deprecation since os X 10.8 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/carbon_core and Xcode 5 https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/SystemFrameworks/SystemFrameworks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001067-CH210-BBCFGHBB

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JWWalker OP

Dec ’23

Are you looking for something specific? You can often find basic information in the framework headers.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’24

What are you trying to do with Carbon APIs?

MobileTen correctly pointed out that there was deprecated many years ago. However, it’s worse than that. Many Carbon APIs — including all the ones related to windows, controls, and menus — didn’t make the leap to 64-bit, and macOS 10.15 and later only support 64-bit.

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