June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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Chapter 15. Xcode Tools
Macintosh software development is far easier than ever before. Not only does Mac OS X ship with a large variety of development tools for free, but the tools themselves—especially the integrated development environment applications Xcode and Interface Builder—are beautiful pieces of work that help even newcomers start writing Mac OS X applications quickly.
This chapter outlines the Xcode Tools that ship with Mac OS X Panther and touches on the system resources that make Unix development possible on a Mac.
Getting the Xcode Tools
When first installed onto a machine, Mac OS X actually lacks all the development tools mentioned in this chapter (as well crucial BSD-layer development tools such as gcc 3.3). You have to take a few extra steps to install them.
The fastest way into the Xcode Tools simply involves inserting the
Xcode
Tools CD that ships with every boxed set of Mac OS X Panther and
double-clicking its installer icon. This installs the whole
/Developer hierarchy and various Unix libraries
and executables that make software development (or even just
compiling programs from downloaded source code) possible.
If you purchased new hardware, you may not have the Xcode Tools CD.
Instead, you can install the Xcode Tools by double-clicking on
Developer.mpkg, found in
/Applications/Installers/Developer Tools.
We recommend that you follow up by joining the Apple Developer Connection (ADC), at http://connect.apple.com, which offers a free, online membership. Through ...
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