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

Author: Hristo

Date: 22:21:28 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.

First, check in your Applications folder, there you might have an "Installers"
folder with the Development tools package available for installation. At any
rate you might want to remove it if you install from a CD or if you download
XCode from Apple.

XCode uses gcc, so it is C/C++ compliant. :-)
XCode has a nice front-end for gdb.

I would strongly suggest you get the latest version of the XCode environment
ver. 1.2.
Also make sure to get CHUD, from Apple development tools. This is a great set of
tools for debugging and profiling your programs, using hardware level debugging.
You can see exactly what lines of code and which instructions (!) are causing
you the most amount of time. It is great when you want to rearrange a given loop
or function.

Regards,
Hristo






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