I would like to graciously and sincerely think all three of you for your tips
on development in OS X!
- Bill
- Sent from Bill's iPhone 6
On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote:
See below.
On Apr 27, 2015, at 4:17 AM, Bill Gallik wfgal...@icloud.com 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 OSX?
- are make/nmake
See below.
On Apr 27, 2015, at 4:17 AM, Bill Gallik wfgal...@icloud.com 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.
Just install Xcode and you will have a complete development environment. Clang
is now the native C/C++/OBJC/Swift compiler for BSD systems including of
course OS X. The BSD project abandoned the GCC tool chain because of a
revision in GPL version 3. That being said, you still get flex and
Alex is pretty much dead on. Xcode is your best bet for an accessible GUI
based tool that will compile in C/C++. make/nmake are theoretically available
but you’ll need a wine wrapper, see this stack overflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3483146/using-nmake-on-osx
