“An Xcode documentation set consisting of Apple’s Mac OS X and Developer Tools technical resources, including Guides, Reference, Release Notes, Sample Code, Technical Notes, and Technical Q&As. Given that you aren’t developing Mac applications with a GUI but want to just experiment with the C language, I suggest that you unselect “Core Reference Library”, which is described by Apple as: The key one to ensure you have selected is “UNIX Development Support” which gives you access to all the handy commands and tools you seek. Get past the license agreements (yawn) and click on “Customize” and you’ll see what’s about to be installed: Instead, go into the folder “Xcode Tools”, where you’ll see three installers: “Dashcode.pkg”, “WebObjects.mpkg” and “XcodeTools.mpkg”.ĭouble-click on “XcodeTools.mpkg” to get started. That’s not what you want, so don’t click on it. Within there’s an icon labeled “Optional Installs.mpkg”. When you open up the install DVD, you’ll see that in addition to the cool “Install Mac OS X” icon, there’s also a folder labeled “Optional Installs”. I am going to be working off an original Leopard OS, but XCode is included with all modern releases of Mac OS X, as far as I am aware.
#INSTALL X11SDK FOR MAC HOW TO#
Now you can drop your install (or restore) disk into your drive and know how to proceed.
I tried object-oriented programming and was even a professional LISP programmer for a while, but never quite wrapped my brain about the concept.Īnyway, Apple does include a C development environment – and quite a bit more – with every copy of Leopard, along with earlier versions of Mac OS X, but truth be told, you need to know one key thing: the Apple development environment toolset is called Xcode. I still dabble in the language, actually, as I find it to be fast, flexible and logical for tasks that can’t be forced into a shell script template. Thrill as we see obfuscated error messages from the C compiler, gasp as we come face to face with “vi” and weep in anticipatory frustration as we try to use “gdb” to figure out what the heck’s wrong with our simple “hello world” application.Īctually, I have always enjoyed programming in C and have written some quite massive applications in the language. Ah yes, join us now as we travel back in time and visit the software development environment of yesteryear, the Unix command line.
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