[rogerkylin]

I want to start writing OSX apps, and just need a little bit of advice to get started.

I am very experienced at writing fortran 77/90 code for numerical applications with a little experience writing .mex files for matlab that interact with the OS. I have done a small amount of C programming but am not an expert.

I've looked around the developer site at apple.com, but there is just a LOT of information spread out about the various technolgies.

Is there a good book, or particular set of documents at apple.com that lists all of the system subroutines (API's?) and other things I need to get started?

ALSO

Is there some reason, that if I compile a simple C code using cc, that if I try to run the application by typing the executeables name it does not run?

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by rogerkylin:
<STRONG>Is there a good book, or particular set of documents at apple.com that lists all of the system subroutines (API's?) and other things I need to get started?</STRONG>

I doubt you'd get very far with just a list of API calls. It's all nicely organised by each API (Cocoa, Carbon, etc) and so on at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/

<STRONG>Is there some reason, that if I compile a simple C code using cc, that if I try to run the application by typing the executeables name it does not run?</STRONG>

I doubt the directory where the executable ends up in is in your $PATH. It's shell things. Instead, try ./a.out or whatever.