[angelmb]

A friend asked me about the follow, he needs to use GDB under Mac OS X to do something with/to a Palm app, I have no clue about Palms, he asks about if is possible to use GNU and GDB even if you do not install the whole xcode thing.

the Info about GNU and GDB for sure you all know yet,
http://developer.apple.com/tools/gcc_overview.html

Thanks in advance.

[smeger]

It's probably possible to do, but he'd probably be better just installing Apple's free developer tools instead. No compatibility worries that way.

You can run gdb from terminal just like you would on any Linux box.

[hayesk]

Install the whole XCode tools, but ignore the IDE - run gcc and gdb from the desktop. Yes, it is possible to do this.

[Angus_D]

gcc and gdb are part of the "Xcode Tools" suite, which is badly named. If you install Xcode Tools, you can run gcc and gdb as you would on any other platform (Darwin oddnesses aside), and build projects using makefiles, configure scripts and so on. Xcode is just a convenience GUI IDE that you can use if you so desire.

You can also build cross-compilers from the official FSF gcc tarballs and stuff.