November 2002
Beginner to intermediate
160 pages
3h 17m
English
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Developer Tools
Apple has gone to great lengths to lure a new breed of developers to the Mac, offering environments for traditional C, C++, Objective-C (and recently Objective-C++), Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and with the introduction of AppleScript Studio, AppleScripters can now harness their scripting knowledge to build Cocoa-based applications.
Installing the Developer Tools
You can quickly check to see if you have the Developer Tools installed. If you have a /Developer folder on your hard drive, you are ready to go. If not, you’ll need to install the tools either from the Developer Tools CD that came with your system or from a disk image you can download from the Apple Developer Connection (ADC) site.
The Developer Tools CD comes with every boxed set of Mac OS X
(including Mac OS X Server), as well as with new Macs shipped from
the factory with OS X. To install the tools, simply find the CD
(it’s the gray one), put it into your CD-ROM drive,
and double-click the Developer.mpkg file that
appears.
Note
If you didn’t receive a Developer Tools CD with your
new Mac, you can find Developer.mpkg in
/Applications/Installers/Developer Tools.
If you can’t find your Developer Tools CD, you should go to the ADC member web site at http://connect.apple.com, register as an online member (it’s free), and then you can download the Developer Tools.
Note
There are many levels of ADC membership available. The free Online membership gets you a good range of benefits, including access to the latest ...
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