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Subject: Re: Beginning Programmer seeking help w/ Mac OSX

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 22:08:21 07/10/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 00:40:49, Eric Jensen wrote:

>I'm wondering whether or not anyone can point me towards a relatively simple
>freeware C compiler for Mac OS X... i keep finding information on the apple
>website that says i shouild have XCode included... but i dont think i do...
>
>I'm new to using macintosh computers... and i would appreciate anyone who could
>point me in the direction of a compiler or maybe even an IDE that i could get
>for free... or just explain to me whether or not there's a compiler included in
>OS X...
>
>I realize this post makes me sound like a complete idiot... but i'm just highly
>inexperienced with Macintosh, despite the fact that the switch has been more or
>less comfortable.

OS X is built with the freely available gcc compiler which is also available
online. When you bought your machine or OS X there is a 3rd CD for development
tools.

Project Builder and Xcode are really nice IDE for graphical programming.
However you can still use gcc like you would on any unix'ish machine (Linux,
Solaris, FreeBSD, etc). Just use your terminal.


You can also download it for free from apple's developer website.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html

Hope this helps :)

Sincerely,
Joshua Shriver

BTW if you install Fink, you can also grab other compilers, interpreters + a
myriad of gnu/free software.




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