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DominikHoffmann · Jan 10, 2005, 09:48 PM

There is a utility I think I would like to write for the Mac OS X platform.

Xcode seems to be the development environment of Apple's choice. Is there literature that explains how to use it, with hand-on examples?

Dominik Hoffmann

Brass · Jan 10, 2005, 10:11 PM

Yes, there is. I would suggest that you could search this very forum to find the answer to this question which has been asked many times here before

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Kristoff · Jan 10, 2005, 10:16 PM

Are you serious?

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Thinine · Jan 10, 2005, 11:08 PM

Actually, try developer.apple.com for access to Apple's developer documentation. Cocoadev.com and cocoadevcentral.com for Cocoa programming guidance. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Sec. Ed.) by Aaron Hillegass is the definitive how to program in Cocoa book. Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan is the definitive programming in Objective-C book. For C/C++ command line utilities, you can use gcc/g++ in Terminal.app (make sure you have the developer tools installed) to compile those. Xcode can also be used for command line programming by creating a new Standard Tool project for C and a C++ Tool (obviously) for a C++ project. For Java, Xcode can be used, and there will be documentation on Apple's site, but I would recommend Eclipse for Java.

Kristoff · Jan 11, 2005, 12:36 AM

I would recommend NetBeans 4.0 for java, since it doesn't rely on SWT (blech)

ideasculptor · Jan 19, 2005, 12:06 AM

http://www.macdevcenter.com/

itistoday · Jan 19, 2005, 05:02 PM

Mods, why isn't there a topic there like this that's made a Sticky? This question has been asked so many times and is so important that I think it's worthy of being made a sticky (or some simlar thread).

wadesworld · Jan 19, 2005, 10:49 PM

http://www.idevgames.com is also a good resource. Just make sure to restrict your questions to the "General Mac Programming" forum, unless they are game related.

Wade