Welcome to the CodeWarrior Porting Guide. This guide offers hints and tips on moving your programming project from other software development environments to CodeWarrior. It also points you to other CodeWarrior documentation for more in-depth topics.

Use this guide if you are new CodeWarrior or you are converting a programming project from another development system to CodeWarrior.

This guide refers to development tools that might not be available with the CodeWarrior package you have. Consult the QuickStart guide that came with your CodeWarrior package for information on what is in your CodeWarrior package.

This chapter has these sections:

• Read the Release Notes
• What is New in This Release
• What is in This Guide
• Where to Go From Here

Read the Release Notes

Before using CodeWarrior, read the information in the Release Notes folder, which is on the CodeWarrior CD-ROM and installed in the CodeWarrior folder on your computer's hard drive.

The release notes contain important information about new features, bug fixes, and any late-breaking changes.

What is New in This Release

This guide has been significantly rewritten. It now has new and updated information on moving a programming project to CodeWarrior.

Also, future revisions of this guide will add information about moving to CodeWarrior from more software development environments.

What is in This Guide

The chapters in this guide are listed in Table 1.1.

Chapters in this guide:

Read this chapter	to learn about
"Welcome"	using this guide
"Common Porting Issues"	solutions to common problems you might encounter when porting your project to CodeWarrior
"Microsoft® Visual Studio® Porting Issues"	converting a programming project from Miscrosoft Visual Studio to CodeWarrior

Where to Go From Here

This guide only discusses unique issues and problems that you might encounter when converting your programming project to CodeWarrior.

If you are new to CodeWarrior, you will find these manuals and references the most useful:

• CodeWarrior IDE User Guide-how to use the CodeWarrior IDE to edit, search, navigate, compile, link, debug, and manage programming projects
• C Compilers Reference-discusses the CodeWarrior implementations of the C, C++, Embedded C++, and Objective C programming languages
• MSL C++ Reference-describes the Metrowerks Standard Library for C
• MSL C Reference-describes the Metrowerks Standard Library for C++
• Targeting manuals-describe how to use CodeWarrior to develop software for a specific processor or operating system

For example, to learn how to use CodeWarrior to create software for the Apple Macintosh, read Targeting Mac OS.