I would like to graciously and sincerely think all three of you for your tips 
on development in OS X!



- Bill
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> On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> See below.
>> On Apr 27, 2015, at 4:17 AM, Bill Gallik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Knowing that the underlying operating system in OSX is some version of UNIX, 
>> I have some quite detailed  curiosities about how to design, code, compile 
>> and manage software I may want to develop personally.
>> 
>> Specifically:
>> 
>> - is there a native C compiler available for OS X?
> I don't know, but Xcode can compile C++ just fine. I can't imagine it won't 
> do C as well, but you can check on that. Of course, you can install any 
> command line compiler you wish, and GCC as part of Terminal may still be 
> included as part of Xcode (I never use it so don't know for certain).
>> 
>> - are make/nmake available as well?
> Again, I'm not sure, but those would probably get installed with any 
> compiler. I've never dealt much with C, sorry.
> 
>> - are software management tools readily available?
> Xcode is free. It's big, a little over 5GB, but will let you play with C++, 
> Objective-C, and Swift (see my note about C, above).
> 
>> - are GUI based tools accessible via VoiceOver?
> Xcode is mostly accessible, though I haven't done advanced debugging, used 
> breakpoints, or anything like that. I think Tyler and Barry have, so 
> hopefully they can jump in here.
> 
>> * * * * * * * * *
>> Bill Gallik
>> [email protected]
>> 
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